I agree educators should not be biased or bigoted or ideologues. While two of my children are biracial and five of grandchildren are biracial, I have never heard any of them suggest they felt their teachers were racist.

Instead the most consistent refrain I hear is that teachers are bigoted towards conservatives and penalize children who don't express progressive liberal ideology in the papers they write.

I guess the bright part of this bigoted behavior on the part of teachers is that my children have all chose to pursue business, science, and engineering degrees, where ideology does not matter but what matters is getting the right answer.

Teachers do need to be thoroughly vetted to insure they are not racist or bigoted. Children with strong conservative values should not be penalized for their beliefs.

Discrimination is not purely a racial issue... all forms should not be tolerated especially discrimination based on color... whether that is skin color or red vs blue political color.

There is simply nothing wrong with a child that believes in the civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution including right to bear arms and practice one's faith. There is nothing wrong with a child that believes nations should enforce their borders against illegal immigration uniformly. There is nothing wrong with that a child that believes capitalism the preferred way to determine how goods and services produced by society are distributed in the marketplace. And should a student believe today's teachers' unions are wrong for not going back to the classroom, the child has a right to their opinion.

Racism is a specific kind of discrimination... but discrimination is wrong... whether it is expressed in terms of skin color or towards people with different political views than the teacher holds.