Response to bush/hitler article

I couldn’t disagree more with Keena’s response to the CNN article about the colorado teacher who was put on temporary leave for his conversation about Bush’s State of the Union adress. My personal article last week covered this article and I had a completely different opinion. Him being reinstated and given his job back was a victory for teachers everywhere. Even though his speech was out of the norm, it did exactly what he wanted it to do, it sparked his students interest. It motivated his students to question what he said and evaluate whether or not they agreed with that statement. As a government teacher we should not just present what they media puts out, we need to show an opposing view, which is what I felt he did. Regaurdless if it was his personal opinion or not it was the opposite view point. Going against the grain is something that I value in an educator, we should always be challenging our students to question the things around us and it’s great seeing educators out their doing just that.