Why the hell does this thread turn into that unIntelligible Design crap again?

This is about a teacher breaching some very clear lines between teaching and preaching, lying, even; or perhaps distortion of news, if Xiahou's and Pindar's suspicions are correct.

Should their suspicions be unfounded, however, just fire the fool. How many times have I heard those complaints about "liberal [teachers/professors] indoctrinating my kids"? It's time for those who complain to prove they're not hypocrites.
Quote Originally Posted by GoreBag
Navaros is right in one regard - it is the teacher's job to indoctrinate the kids. The only real difference here is that he's introducing ideas that aren't part of the designated group of notions which every good and honest citizen "should" accept as truth. I don't care if he was talking about Yeshua or time travel through autoerotic nipple-twisting; the man wasn't doing his job (read: sticking to official curriculum) and that's the only standard to which his behaviour can truly be measured. He's being paid to do it, after all.
Not true. A properly run science class demands that the teacher takes initiative in openly exposing the students to the sources and ways that those knowledges are achieved as much as teaching the students the knowledges themselves; in fact, in my opinion, one of the ways to truly engage someone in the scientific world is by exposing on how it actually works and how all those data come from. The student can then make judgment on his/her own about it all.

If anything, the history of science is one of the most interesting topics around. You finally know how those criminally boring calculus formulas get their lives, for example.

Of course, lazy teaching would lead to the kind of indoctrination you claim happens.

Guess what a properly run "Intelligent Design" class would do?