Government and Politics at College

[Bobby]

I recently did a taster for Government and Politics and College and here are my thoughts:

I believe that in the UK at least, the teachers are biased towards liberal/socialist views. My first teacher stated openly that they were a member of the labour party and would be biased but also claimed that they wanted balanced discussion. The 1-hour session with this teacher consisted of him complaining about the conservatives and Theresa may while appealing for everyone to agree with him. After this, he discussed the ideologies that were going to study which was: Liberalism, Socialism, Conservativism and Feminism.

Does that seem like a balance of subjects ha ha?

Anyway, I would like to hear your thoughts on this and if you have ever had a teacher that is like this.

[Devon]

Starting Government and Politics at 6th Form soon. I was always expecting a more liberal bias within the teaching, but I will await to see how bad it is.

[Prompt]

Our teacher voted labour.

She was always on about how labour will win erc

She is a interesting person

[Baskingner]

Good teachers dont influence their students from a political point of view. That includes not telling them on which party you voted and being neutral when talking about political leaders.

[Nuka]

Most likely irrelevant. You're at GCSE level, not starting university. There is a syllabus to follow. Exams to revise for, textbooks that are read out of, mock papers; a teacher does not have much control over what you the student learn, and as said, this is not university, you're studying the same shit every other student is taught at their school, bias is not a factor here pal, really; you have no opportunity to be bias in your line of work, not to a massive extent, anyway. Apart from EPQ work and essays (to a lesser extent) your opinion, and your teacher's, is not cared about massively. At the end of the day, any politics teacher is going to have a huge involvement with a certain political party. By telling you who they voted for they are ensuring that they are honest and declaring their views to you.

if they're a good teacher, their political views will be irrelevant. A bad teacher will be both biased and poor in other aspects of teaching.

[Bobby]

Most likely irrelevant. You're at GCSE level, not starting university. There is a syllabus to follow. Exams to revise for, textbooks that are read out of, mock papers; a teacher does not have much control over what you the student learn, and as said, this is not university, you're studying the same shit every other student is taught at their school, bias is not a factor here pal, really; you have no opportunity to be bias in your line of work, not to a massive extent, anyway. Apart from EPQ work and essays (to a lesser extent) your opinion, and your teacher's, is not cared about massively. At the end of the day, any politics teacher is going to have a huge involvement with a certain political party. By telling you who they voted for they are ensuring that they are honest and declaring their views to you.

if they're a good teacher, their political views will be irrelevant. A bad teacher will be both biased and poor in other aspects of teaching.

This was an A level at college btw.

[Greed^]

The education system has always been biased towards liberalism

[Divey]

I studied Sociology at Sixth Form and the teachers are my school for the most part seemed to favour the Marxists ideology more when teaching, which is to be expected honestly, due to the fact that the left side in politics tend to seem more appealing to Teachers due to the fact that parties such as Labour promise to support careers such as their own, whereas the Conservative party continue to go through with cuts, which they are getting sick and tired of and rightfully so.

Although my Sociology Teachers were sided to the left, they weren't overly rubbing it in our faces and were encouraging us to form our own opinion, however I also studied Drama & Theatre Studies and my Teacher went as far to say to vote any but the 'Tories', due to the fact that the Conservative party is cutting back the arts in Education, which can already be seen in many schools, with some abandoning many creative subjects due to a lack of funding, but that is a whole other story which I could go into.

[Archer]

Discussing politics is a big no in Turkish schools, a physics teacher in my school got fired this year after he mentioned what he voted for in the referendum.

[Greed^]

Discussing politics is a big no in Turkish schools, a physics teacher in my school got fired this year after he mentioned what he voted for in the referendum.

How about religion then?