Democratic Underground - Conservative middle schooler appears on Fox News complaining about liberal bias in school

Go to an American middle school campus today, and you'll discover a diverse bunch of kids: the wannabe gangstas, the video gamers, and the mall fashionistas, most of whom are woefully ignorant about current events in favour of their own social issues and the latest gossip about celebrity trivia like Justin Bieber's latest girlfriend. And then there are those who take initiative to read a newspaper page besides the Style or Sports section or a nonfiction book and are thus more knowledgeable about the world or news and such.

And then you have Sam Besserman.

Besserman, who completed 6th grade this year, is a conservative student from Beverly Hills, California. He appeared on Fox News Channel's morning show Fox and Friends this morning. (h/t: News Hounds) On Sunday, he wrote an essay for right-wing opinion site The American Thinker. Among his grievances:

The first time I noticed the bias was actually in preschool, where the teacher was reading a book about the importance of mothers and the inferiority of fathers. I tried to tell the teacher that dads might be just as important. The teacher responded in a sing-song, "No, listen to me, I'm the teacher."

The only male teacher I had might as well have been castrated. His voice was soft, his gestures were feminine, he didn't know how to run a class, and he had to rely on female assistant teachers to control the children. And, of course, the female teachers treated the girls ten times better than the boys and constantly reminded us of our alleged inferiority. One of the assistant teachers even put down our rhyme, "Boys go to college to get more knowledge, girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider," by reminding us that more girls than boys go to college because girls are smarter. And this only encouraged the girls to hijack our rhyme and switch the sexes around.

When I switched schools in 2nd grade, I suddenly found myself surrounded by bleeding-heart liberals. We were taught that minorities were victims and therefore good, and members of the majority were, by inference, bad. Similarly, we learned that America was the big, bad exploiter, and the countries my parents grew up believing were evil were not so bad after all. I asked my father about these issues practically every night, and he taught me the meaning of moral relativism. I thought he was being too kind, and I characterized it, instead, as moral inversion.

It wasn't until the Democratic primaries ended in 2008 that things started getting really bad. Liberals everywhere -- but especially at school -- seemed empowered by the prospect of a black man becoming president, if for no other reason than the color of his skin. One day, during a game of dodgeball, the old assistant P.E. teacher yelled to the other students to "Get the Republican, get the Republican!" meaning me.

Once, when I was reading to avoid listening to a yet another guest lecture about man-made global warming -- in which the lecturer told us we should all reduce our consumption of meat to one meal a week -- the teacher took away my book and said, "Listen, she's smart." But according to what we now know about the hockey stick graph, she wasn't that smart after all. My English teacher was no better. She made it completely obvious that she thought those who didn't like Barack Obama needed to see a doctor. She never had anything good to say about America and always exaggerated Native American achievements over those of European colonists. When I tried to express my conservative views, she would say that we didn't have time for that and we should move on.

These incidents happened at some private school, so Besserman transferred to the local public school Beverly Vista Elementary School. For him (at least) things go downhill from here:

At Beverly Vista, my first teacher was a full-time misandrist and global warming wacko. She definitely hated boys and men and constantly spoke of male inferiority. If a boy ever mentioned an accomplishment that happened to be by a man, she would bring up an accomplishment by a female (but always tied to the feminist movement), even though we weren't debating whether men or women were superior. In a forced attempt to make women's accomplishments the equal of the founding fathers', she said one of the early first ladies was the real brains behind her husband and told the story of a woman who disguised herself as a man to enter the army, emphasizing how courageous and important she was to the women of America even though no one had ever heard of her. And if she wasn't putting down men and praising women, she was encouraging us to become activists for women's rights, animal rights, and against global warming. I don't think she had ever heard of a conservative cause.

This past year, however, I seem to have been subjected to the ultimate in ideological bigotry. My social studies and English teacher should win an award. After Scott Brown won the third big election since Obama became president, she told the class, "Right-wing Nazis are taking office all over the place." She also told us, "Racist bigots from the south are refusing to shake Barack Obama's hand." She lectured us about Mao Tse-Tung and failed to mention that he killed 70 million people. She also told us that Russia was better off under communism and that under communism, people could rely on each other. To her, the only problem with communism is that it hasn't been done right yet.

For now just the kid has spoken. I don't wanna know what his parents think about the Obama administration, global warming, and politics/science in general after actually taking the time to read both his own editorial and a liberal blog breaking down a TV appearance of his. Starting in the fall Besserman will be homeschooled.

I've got some words for Besserman though: Generally, if you're the only person expressing something and you constantly have to defend it in spite of overwhelming contradictory evidence, you're in the wrong. Second, the scientific consensus concludes that humans are responsible for global warming! (Please don't tell me that you think that a deity created humans and lifeforms and that the Earth is 6,000 years old.) Third, realise that men have held power in America for centuries most of which were a time when women could not even vote. When you grow up and open your eyes you'll find out how childish and arrogant your "boys rule" mentality really is. Are men the ones being beaten/raped regularly and abandoned to support babies? No...it's usually women!

As for the 70 million people murdered by Mao, what about the thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghanistani civilians killed in our money-wasting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are sucking money away from public schools of all places! (oh wait I guess you'd like those liberal indoctrinating institutions to shrivel up so that America will colonise the world! yippee!) What about the Latin American death squads backed by the Reagan administration in places like Guatemala...and in Nicaragua "in the name of anti-Communism"? The genocide and displacement of Native Americans thanks to those European colonists who you so dearly love? Don't you think that those reflect poorly on America?

But I've heard that you've been bullied physically, so perhaps I should add my disapproval of that.

What I think of homeschooling in general: If parents feel that they can be superior educators than those evil, socialist public schools, that's nice, but they should PROVE it by means of having a credential, periodical check by an evaluator, or standardised test among other things.

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