Tag Archives: Jeff Berger-White

What Do Leftist Teachers Really Think About Conservatives?

Posted on December 8, 2022 by David E Smith

If you want to know what “progressive” teachers think of conservative parents, please take a gander at the following blog post from recently retired Deerfield High School English teacher (and former colleague) David Hirsch. On October 6, 2022, Hirsch published a post titled, “Watch Out Parents: Big Conservative Is Not Just Coming After Teachers and Librarians” in which he makes a number of mindboggling claims. Warning—Irony Alert:

We need to talk about how you are interacting with your children at home. What are you teaching them? How are you modeling well? Are you making the right choices –

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Posted in Education | Tagged Angels in America, book-banners, Communist Youth, David Hirsch, Deerfield High School, Elliot Hurtig, Hitler Youth, Jeff Berger-White, Maia Kobabe | Comments Off

Leftists See Orwell’s Novel 1984 As a Blueprint for Progress

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

One of the many remarkable aspects of this time in America is that all the forces of oppression about which George Orwell warned in his novel 1984 are present and growing, and many of the oppressors can’t see it. Ironically, many of the oppressors view themselves as paragons of virtue when, in reality, they’re paragons of virtue-signaling, which constitutes a performative cloak of invisibility that conceals totalitarianism.

Posted in Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged 1984, Ellen Page, Elliot Page, First Amendment, George Orwell, Howard Zinn, Jeff Berger-White, Laurie Higgins, Leftists, Michael Wolf, Newspeak, People's History of the United States, the Party, UMich, University of Michigan | Comments Off

“Education” in a Pro-Propaganda Culture

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

On July 10 at Walled Lake Western High School in Michigan, popular teacher Justin Kucera who taught AP World History and coached varsity baseball and basketball and who by all accounts never brought his politics into his teaching or coaching was fired for tweeting, “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our president.” Meanwhile...

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged America, Christ, College, Dartmouth, Deerfield High School, Donald Trump, education, Elliot Hurtig, Harvard, homosexuality, Jeff Berger-White, Jesus Christ, John Ellis, John Stuart Mills, Justin Kucera, Leftists, Mark Levin, Nicole Estes, Paulette Loe, radical sexuality, schools, Scripture, Teachers, the Bible, Yale | Comments Off

PODCAST: Education in a Pro-Propaganda Culture

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

Twelve years ago when I was a member of the English Department at Deerfield High School on Chicago’s North Shore working full-time in the writing center, teachers Elliot Hurtig and Jeff Berger-White were teaching the repugnant play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and Hurtig also taught the historically inaccurate Laramie Project, both plays of which espoused politically “progressive,” morally regressive views of homosexuality. Setting aside the egregious obscenity in Angels in America, I discussed with a purportedly Catholic writing center colleague the ethical problem of teachers presenting resources from only one side of …

Tagged College, colleges, education, Elliot Hurtig, homosexuality, Jeff Berger-White, sexuality | Comments Off