Surprise, surprise - yet again another case of indoctrination within the classroom. On May 11 Celeste Finkenbine, a high school student at Missouri's Francis Howell High School, was assigned to analyze and write a report on Michael Moore's film 'Sicko'. The assignment was worth 50 percent of the grade in her Senior Literature and Composition class taught by a woman named Debra Blessman: she refused. Finkenbine then took her complaint to the principal to state her problems with Blessman showing the film in the class. Her teacher offered an alternative assignment: read and analyze Dr. King’s 7,000-word essay, "A Letter from Birmingham Jail." As Bob McCarty points out in his blog post, which was also used on Big Government, the reason Finkenbine complained was due to prior incidents that lead to her objection on the film being used for the final exam. Ironically, during one class session Finkenbine, who is a politically active Conservative, compared her participation in Tea Party rallies with the civil disobedience in which Dr. King were a part of. The teacher then responded:
“Well, we all know you’re a ‘teabagger.’” At which point in time the entire classroom began laughing at her.
“My biggest issue with it is my principal said I can argue the conservative viewpoint, but that’s something that I have background with, that I’ve researched myself.
“Every other student in that class was only given the liberal viewpoint of it, and that’s exactly what teachers aren’t supposed to do, is lean toward one side or the other", said Finkenbine.
Here is a video from BobMcCarty.com explaining the situation:
McCarty made several attempts to get a response from the teacher, but none were returned thus far. It's no surprise that a majority of teachers tend to be heavily biased and project a liberal curriculum onto their students. However, the way Ms. Blessman treated and embarrassed Finkenbine just for her political viewpoints should warrant at minimum, an apology, if not a corrective measure in the form of punishment.