Sorry to sound like I'm generalizing BigBear... I know a few teachers that are actually quite good and resist the progressive movement, but gosh, they are so outnumbered (or at least outspoken) by the number of leftists in the profession. And, like the LE industry enjoys a very conservative majority, teaching, as a profession, is predominantly a liberal dominated workforce. It's really a very complex problem- liberal teachers being in the majority, teacher unions, crap parents who have some stupid excuse to suck at raising children, and of course, society that overreacts when a kid takes a bit of his freaking pop tart and it looks like a gun. Something needs to change. We need sanity back in our world.