We don’t want our children being forced to watch one-sided presentations of policy debates while in anatomy class:

[H]er anatomy teacher had made the class watch the president’s health-care speech. After the video was shown, the students were given a short quiz about the speech. The questions asked gave the assumption that the answers provided in the President’s speech were fact and not opinion.

The students were given no opportunity to discuss opposing views or have a debate on the topic. In fact, when one student stated that the President had lied, the student was told that kind of talk was unnecessary. Students in the class with opposing views were forced to remain silent or whisper amongst themselves.

Anatomy class is supposed to be about dissecting earthworms and frogs, not dissecting the president’s half-truths about health care in America.

Civics class is the appropriate forum for discussing presidential speeches — and if education rather than indoctrination is the goal, then both sides should be aired. Republicans delivered a response to Obama the same night of his speech to Congress. One of them didn’t even wait until it was over.

(Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.)