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:







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:



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.

Lies are right wing.

That is complete bullshit.

Like that 14 year old kid with the squeaky voice who wrote some book and was promoted at the CPAC conference.

the little shit the liar that he is - to his face, to his parent's face and to faux news.

And to think...all I wanted was to keep my progress reports out of my parents hands, oh how times have changed! I bet his parents wrote the article and FoxSnews coached him on everything he was to say and do. :eyes:

than the other. Set up all the way.

Blood relative of someone named Sarah?

He'll be murdering prostitutes in the back of his van before long.

He is a complete fabrication and set up, from top to bottom.

Pageant parents, Sports parents, Stage parents - guess he's got Think-Tank parents.
Even when I was in sixth grade and basically growing up in various University history/anthropology departments as my parents were getting their master's degrees, I wouldn't write on my own like that. I could parrot a good rant (since I was eight, actually), but I really didn't comprehend causality and what the difference between propaganda and fact-based opinion/information dissemination was.
And, of course, I'd get a lot of positive feedback from most adults whenever I'd opine like I was reciting a master's thesis draft - in fact, many times I'd start going on about things I really had no clue about.

Instead of being exposed to Emerson, Shaw, Kipling, Sinclair, White, Meade, Heyek, Vonnegut, well as Hunter S. Thompson as I was - this kid has obviously been exposed to Rand, Buckley, Christol, and Will

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And not the first one I have seen. Another one was some preteen girl on iReport.com who was clearly studying to become the next Glenn (Glennette?) Beck. She had the little head tilts, the speech patterns and of course the twisted world views down to a T. So obvious that she was "manufactured" to appease the "awwww" factor in the media consumers.

All the 12-year-olds say "misandry." It's, like, the new "like."

Name for me please ONE middle-schooler capable and willing to use the word "misandrist" in normal conversation as if it were an everyday occurrence.

... if they hear them frequently at home.

It's not his vocabulary that's suspect; it's the ideas he's expressing.

:shrug:

Shit in pre-school I had a hard time telling upper case B's from lower case b's.

Anyone who actually complains about objections to their rhyme, "Boys go to college to get more knowledge, girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider" is not worth considering further, not until their little pea-brain reaches a higher place. I imagine that's why cons love that, though, and I assume he'll have a book deal by year's end.

I just graduated from high school this year in one of the most conservative counties in America and I can tell you that the majority of teachers in my school were Republicans. Hell my ECON teacher had a Glen Beck book sitting on his desk and was a proud libertarian and always talked about how good Reagonomics was but hey I'm just a socialist. Oh and the fact that the most respected history teacher in my school is best friends with Richard Lugar and in class asked if any of us believed in the "stupid global warming?" But hey it's okay for Conservatives to do it because they are just bettering the world, and making up stories about seeing liberalism in teachers in preschool is just another way to crush the communistic tendencies of American schools..:eyes:

There's no way this kid wrote this essay. No fucking way.

then why didn't the kid explain where he learned all those "facts" he calls "the truth?" Obviously SOMEWHERE, someone had been telling him SOMETHING that he chose to believe. . .

So if he got it from his parents, then why didn't they just homeschool him anyway, since it appears they were doing it all along.

Hes a fucking loser who is being brainwashed by his parents and I am glad that the other kids around him are giving him a hard time for being an idiot.

I also love it when conservatives think they are so much smarter than everyone else and there is this huge liberal conspiracy against them. I hope this kid pulls his head out of his ass by the time hes out of high school but it looks like hes been indoctrinated pretty heavily.

http://www.slate.com/id/2074452

Did Bullies Torment Richard Perle?Calvin Trillin's joke springs to life.
By Timothy NoahUpdated Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002, at 6:10 PM ET

Calvin Trillin writes political doggerel every week for The Nation. On Sept. 16, he published a poem titled "Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?" The satirical conceit was that schoolyard bullies who pushed Perle around as a child "have got a lot to answer for,/ 'Cause Richard Perle now wants to start a war." (Perle, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security during the Reagan administration, now chairs the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, and is America's leading Iraq hawk.)

Imagining the childhood slights suffered by famous political figures is nothing new for Trillin. Years ago he wrote a hilarious Nation column purporting to excerpt Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s childhood diary:

Today I asked those cool Kennedy boys again if I could play in their touch football game on the quad and they said again that I was a wonk and a weenie and a wimp and a grind and walked like a duck. I told them that someday I would be a famous historian and if they ever let me play with them then I would write whatever they wanted. …

The Perle poem wasn't quite as funny as that, but apparently it hit closer to the mark. After it appeared, a couple of Perle's childhood acquaintances contacted Trillin. "These sources basically said, 'How did you know this? We went to school with him,' " Trillin told Chatterbox. "It's kind of disillusioning. You can't even invent a slander in this country anymore."

Reminiscences about childhood bullies seem right now to be in vogue. The new Miss America, Erika Harold, has talked extensively about hers, and the Nov. 20 Wall Street Journal carried a Page One story in which reporter Jonathan Eig detailed the gratifyingly short and unhappy life story of his. (Becoming a journalist is perhaps the greatest method ever devised to exact revenge on a childhood bully.) Clearly, though, nobody bothered to explain sissy chic to Elaine Shrager, a self-identified classmate of Perle's at Third Street Grammar School in Los Angeles. Apparently slow to grasp Trillin's satiric intent, Shrager wrote The Nation a letter, published Oct. 21, arguing strenuously that bullies had not tormented Perle:

I saved a "slam book," which was popular at the time, in which we wrote our thoughts of one another and joked about our feelings, the way kids do. Eleven classmates signed, including Richard, and I recently reviewed it. Richard was remembered as very smart—not a "nerd" or a "wimp." Respected. I remember him as serious and polite in his Eisenhower jackets. … Richard was not teased more than anyone else—if at all.

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FANTASTIC!!!!

The kid is brainwashed and the whole thing is a total set-up. A big clue: "...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." He portrays himself as a critical thinker--one who apparently doesn't critically think to wonder WHY "no one had ever heard of her."

Unfortunately, this kid seems to be a misogynist-in-training.

I think my reply could have been only this: "It's Beverly Hills, Jake."

Textbook example.

--Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert

would get a male substitute. there weren't any male teachers in younger grade and we would often talk about the difference in teaching and communication and how it effected them, what they felt. as they progressed, i am seeing they get more male teachers. becomes more balanced. and i think that is healthy for both genders. i am not seeing that the male teachers are talking down to the girls, seems like they are well aware to be conscious of this, and i think some female teachers dont have that awareness because of the sexism we have grown up with and is in this world today.

in the lower grades the females teachers, as a whole do seem to prefer the girls. the boys do recognize this. they do talk about it. they do resent it..... reality. youngest had a teacher that told me a secret well into the school year. she said, i really like boys better. you could tell in her teaching and how my son felt in this class. conversation came up because we were often talking about sons learning issues and the point came up. never told son of course.

boys drool, girls rule is acceptable. even laughed at. isn't that cute. no boy would ever get away with a derogatory to girls in front of teacher. there are reasons for this.

a girl will kick, hit, pinch, bite, push and the boy basically has to suck it up, in the younger grades. a boy trying to defend self by pushing girl off will be the one that gets in trouble. a boy complains, and the response is ignored or they are told to toughen up. i have seen it too often to pretend it isn't happening.

we live in texas. my boys get the conservative. area one lives. i tell my boys to suck it up, educate, gain knowledge, and always speak out and always with respect. it has been met well by teachers and adm. and they have not gone too far in their conservatism

told me at college. I am actually going back to school. And it is an issue, not a lot of male teachers for pre-k until 4th or 5th grade. I had two in all the classes I took to get my pre school certificate. I have always wondered why working with the very young children does not attract a lot of men.

being of societal norm, i dont know. but it does effect our boys and the females teachers should be aware of this, and i dont know how much they are. you are going through the process. do they talk about this?

Fear of being labeled as feminine I think has something to do with it. And the poster below mentioned fear of being accused of molestation and sexual harassment. I think that has a lot to do with it. And one last thing is pre-school teachers in general are not paid the greatest. I love that age group and have worked with young kids for a long time, from daycare to group homes. I like the work so I will take the less pay. But people that work with little kids are not overly valued in this country. Maybe women are used to being paid less, sad to say.

The Satanic Panics took their toll.

Many people assume that if your guy who wants to work with kids then your a pedophile in waiting.

IF your a straight guy, then you will have sex with the first girl you can find to get her pregnant. And if you're a gay guy then the first boy.. or girl who looks like a boy (the rhetoric is somewhat confused on this)

I mean, why else would a man want to work with young children, right?

:sarcasm:

A lot of guys can be great with little kids. And I say this as someone who was molested as a kid (only once, by a friend of our family). Not every guy out there is a child molester. I learned that over the years.

you had it about right that most of the male teachers more interested in coaching, and sciences math adn history in the higher grades. not to mention pay. and possibly a discouragement, though a guess on my part, because of societal norm. kinda like males breaking into nursing. there is absolutely no evidence the reason males are not teachers in lower grades is because they will be accused of sexual predator.

It's not arational belief. It doesn't have anything but the most spurious of statistics to back it up. As species go, human males actually are very nurturing.

But that's what many believe. And belief trumps facts too often.

grades that are not given positions because it is believed all males are sexual predators. because you sure do act like this is a fact and is the reason there are no male teachers in lower grades.

Many times men are not encouraged to be teachers in lower grades or enter child care. And at least some of this has to do with the satanic panics in the 80s that painted day cares (especially men whop worked there) are crazed pedophiles.

One can also see this in the media where female predators are seen as novelties. But the creepy male teacher who seduces his students is a cliche. It's assumed that men are not nurturers like women and so many take the next logical step in that and assume that a man who wants to be around children who aren't his may have something wrong with him.

That doesn't translate into "all men are predators". But it does mean that more women apply for those jobs, more women get those jobs and more parents give hints that they are not comfortable with a grown man taking care of their little girl.

Have I done a double blind study researching this?

No.

But I have heard from enough people and seen enough of it myself to have a pretty good idea that it's going on. It may not be the only factor but sure contributes to the problem.

Male teachers are very worried about being accused of sexual harrassment.

Any man not worried about it is nuts -- stay away from jobs that include things like bathroom issues, and little kids.

If a female teacher hugs a young student back it is considered normal. If a male teacher hugs a student or even touches one or smiles at one, it is considered grounds for a full investigation.

women and men teachers where taught a specific hug years ago. as sad as it all is, and when teacher friend informed felt the sad of it. it is a reality for both genders. and the little kids, they love their teachers. demand and insist on the hugs regularly. will not be denied. so all do the best they can

"or smiles at one, it is considered grounds for a full investigation..."

Would you be so kind as to provide a link relevant to the "smiles at one" portion of your assertion? Although it's been over ten years since I was a full time sub, that's one I'd never heard in any of the in-services I attended. I'm presuming then that's it's either quite new, or corralled to only a very few ISDs. Either way, I'd love to read the Policy/Protocol. :hi:

Especially for inner cities where there may not be any dads in the homes either.

For many boys the only male role models they see is the custodian. Not a good situation.

Also, girlsd and boys learn differently. Put all women teachers in classrooms and they'll teach the way they learn best and the girls will do better than the boys. Not a big surprise there.

And I am going to school to be a preschool teacher. There are not a lot of males in my classes. But we don't have bias toward the girls or the boys. It is not allowed. I have found I adore working with the boys too.

Kid needs a deprogrammer fast. Then again, I grew up in a conservative family and rebelled pretty fast, by 16.

Fascist little creep who probably thinks Hitler got a bum rap.

2nd graders can tell when they're surrounded by bleeding heart liberals?
Gym teachers yelling "Get the Republican" during a dodge ball game?

:wtf: Sorry kid but you fail because you're trying too hard. Next time tone it down a little and try to make the lies at least half way believable.

and to ALWAYS do as they are told..or else!!!

Funny, I always thought Conservatives were the ones bloviating about how if you've got bad circumstances in your life, it's because you deserve them, and it's your own stupid fault, and if you don't like it, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and change it. Yet every little thing that doesn't go their way, they throw that albatross around their OWN necks and cry, "Poor, poor me!!! I'm a VICTIM!!!"

I don't buy for a single, solitary SECOND that ANY of this actually happened. Not for a SECOND.

Yes, I'm quite sure there is a children's book in publication informing children that their fathers are inferior. Name the book, Junior. Let us ALL see what it REALLY says.

And yes, I'm also quite sure there was a Gym Teacher running around yelling, "Get the Republican!!! Get the Republican!!!" during dodgeball. Gimme a break.

This kid's story is 100% pure, unadulterated FICTION. What I want to know is what this kid's agenda REALLY is. He's got SOMETHING cooked up and he's trying to parlay his "moment in the spotlight" into something bigger. I'm telling you, this kid either has a book to sell or wants to become a right-wing celebrity so he can go into media work (radio, TV, or movies). I guarantee you that much. Because that story he cooked up doesn't even rise to the level of horseshit.

The right doesn't care that there is absolutely NO factual basis to this kid's story -- they will only care that he is spewing every single "liberal bias" talking point they hold near and dear.

The kid is going to be a STAR!

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."

Yeah. Sure you did.

The kid is a product of his Glenn Becky Dad or a setup or more likely both.


But what amazes me is when the rest of the media goes along with the meme. And then the majority of America is to dang tired tired or stupid on purpose to know the difference.

The 1st question you should ask someone to size up thier political IQ is ask one simple question...

"Where do you get your news?".They are happy to tell you most likely & odds are it is Fox. You then KNOW you are dealing with a brainwashed/damaged socially individual.

I got that Q from My Dr-It works every time if you wanna drag 'em out...

This kid never heard these "things" in school. I saw his interview on Newshounds and there is no way he even wrote this supposed essay. The state should do some investigating of his parents.

For creative bullshit. 100 Bucks says almost none of that stuff happened.

:nopity:

He started noticing a bias in *preschool*? Come on! :eyes:

Big ole portions, three times a day for the rest of his life... and lots of sweet stuff too, full of HFCS... and don't forget the pizza and fries.

Let the kid live a little... "Little" being the operative word.

Boys of Brazil, except the DNA was taken from Norquist.

This kid is just the right age....they are all about that age now..I wonder if FAUX NOISE will interview ALL of them...

http://www.thenation.com/article/richard-perle-whose-fault-he

Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle--
Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl,
Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft
A mamma's boy could be, those kids who oft-
Times pushed poor Richard down and could be heard
Addressing him as Sissy, Wimp or Nerd.
Those kids have got a lot to answer for,
'Cause Richard Perle now wants to start a war.
The message his demeanor gets across:
He'll show those playground bullies who's the boss.
He still looks soft, but when he writes or talks
There is no tougher dude among the hawks.
And he's got planes and ships and tanks and guns--
All manned, of course, by other people's sons.

The other kid who refused to say the pledge of Allegiance because he thought Gay people were being treated unequally under the law.

One kid took a stand that could have cost him for the sake of others, even though he himself was not affected.

The other kid is "WAHHHH, People don't like me! And here's unsubstantiated anecdotes to back me up!"

Not really on the same level, are they?

I'd like the young man in question to name the supposed book.

Honoring women does not = male hatred. These people have a serious complex.

Of course, I teach in a small, anti-intellectual rural area, and my classes contain tea-baggers.

Not all, but enough. I had an 8th grade girl go ballistic this year when we were discussing recognizing bias in media and print. A state standard I'm required to cover.

No names were mentioned, no personalities inferred. But she got up and shouted, "You aren't saying that Glenn Beck tells lies, are you? Because I listen to him and I know. He ALWAYS tells the TRUTH!"

I mildly replied that the topic was bias, not any one author, publisher, broadcaster, or radio spokesperson, and moved on. If I'd used Glenn Beck as an example, her parents would have been in the principal's office raising hell. Again. It was a regular occurrence.

They didn't want her reading any literature that included any character that wasn't an "American." I allowed too much discussion in the classroom. (That meant that too many students offered supposedly "liberal" viewpoints.) And so on.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2542624/posts

The very first replies:





And someone pointed out the misplaced word "misandrist"



Others: some either disagreed or thought the story was true but the authorship not: