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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are transplants coming from Midwest. Mostly apolitical middle 'flyover' America (but a bluish leaning state)...

School systems were much smaller but fairly good. Nowhere near the resources of MCPS but smaller so not necessarily needing such resources. Overall MCPS schools seem pretty good but we've noticed a Democrat leaning favoritism in the schools we've been (IE going to the Library and seeing President Books displayed... all Dems with the lone Republican being Teddy Roosevelt). No real biggie as most schools tend towards the Left side of the political spectrum. Kind of a given.

Maryland is a bit of a conundrum for us, MoCo seems very Liberal (Baltimore too) I.E. neighbors have '[b]hate has no home here[/b]' signs, impeach trump placards, the [b]many language welcome sign[/b], yet the state elected a Republican Governor. Except for a few days before elections, back home you would never see lawn placards.

Anyway the point of all this is... there is definitely a partisan vibe here even though it seems a blue state open minded enough to elect a 'red' governor. Then I read this:

http://www.startribune.com/rosemount-educator-on-leave-after-tweeting-kill-kavanaugh/495903561/

(essentially a School teacher from mild mannered Minnesota tweeting assassination recommendations. A school teacher!.)

My impression of MCPS is despite its bias towards the Dems, everyone seems pretty amiable and reasonable.

Please reassure me we don't have teachers like this here... because if this can happen in Minnesota... (close to my home and we don't see any of the partisanship displayed on the streets as we see here) could such be here within MCPS? We want my children to be exposed to all kinds of peoples, beliefs, and political view points... but not radical view points... so whats your feelings regarding MCPS? Does everyone get a fair shake or are the children taught to hate (right or left)?[/quote]

OP, the fact that you think that the bolded beliefs and slogans are liberal values, and therefore antithetical to conservative values, is pretty troubling.  Yet not at all surprising.  [/quote]

OP here- you make a great point. Actually I don’t think the values written on the placards are conservative or liberal (really they are classical liberal.. a combo of conservative and Liberal). But their use seems to be more by Dem voters (I say this because I see them with ‘impeach trump’ signs. Thus my association. I admit my assumption could be wrong. In the Midwest we are not hateful types either but we don’t advertise we don’t hate. It’s just kind of generally assumed. Anyway I agree with the other posters who said this teacher is a likely one and done nut job and sure they could be here too... just as I said before a right wing nut job can be out there too but seems nothing systemic which is very good. The point of this post was to see if others had concerning experiences. While some interesting and insightful anecdotes were told, nothing concerning was conveyed which is reassuring.

But boy, if I may add, this sure is a partisan crowd. Lot of intolerance from both sides displayed... I tried to be as innocuous as possible, sorry that I failed.

PS... hacking this out on smartphone, apologize in advance if it doesn’t pass thesis level academic editorial scrutiny...[/quote]

OP, you posited an extreme view (because we have "Hate has no home" & "Impeach Trump" signs, teachers may be "radicalized").  We pointed out how extreme that was through rational explanation. How is that intolerance?  Your presupposition (correlating speaking out against Trump/hateful speech/policies with "radicalization") was off-base, that's all.  [/quote]

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