My point was simple, discrimination on any basis is wrong… whether it is based on the color of one’s skin or the color of one’s politics. It is very hard and oppressive for the children of conservative families to be discriminated against with respect to the grades they receive… which can influence which colleges they get to accepted to…

Many conservative parents are giving up on public school educations. They paid for those educations with their taxes and are now having to send their children to private schools or doing home schooling to escape the oppressive atmosphere in the public schools. Check out the number of conservative vs liberal children being sent to private school or being home schooled… why do you think it is so lopsided? Doesn’t that signal a problem to you?

My African American grandchildren have experienced this kind of “value” discrimination not racial discrimination. They have complained of such to their parents, not feeling comfortable regarding what teachers are saying about their values. Many teachers frankly are not “open” to different points of view.

My Asian American children experienced the same thing in school…

Bottom line, no doubt some teachers have racial prejudice and that is a bad things and I said so. But my biracial children and grandchildren have never expressed that they experienced it in what collectively represents more than 50 years in public schools between them.

In contrast, they all have expressed repeated and frequent encounters with “value” bias. This is a real problem. I respect the right of teachers to hold the values they do, I simply do not condone punishing children that don’t share them. Simply said, teacher racial bias seems a relatively small problem compared to teacher value bias. So let’s not ignore the big one to focus on the small one… let’s focus on both.