If biased teaching in school continues the way I have experienced it, the gullible will be confused or led to hold false beliefs. If just one influential teacher voices his standpoint on a political issue, that’s hundreds of students listening to biased lectures. People are everywhere preaching their opinions and there’s nothing wrong with that. I agree people should stand up for what they believe in. This is true in the classroom but with the exception of the instructor. They’re in a position where the students are expected to accept everything they say as the truth unless informed otherwise. It's their social and professional responsibility to refrain from the temptations of taking advantage of their influence on students. Different professions have different degrees of professionalism. Just as a psychiatrist is expected to respect confidentiality, teachers are expected to only speak the truth during class time. Nothing is stopping them from bending that social agreement between teacher and student. In school we’re taught that to succeed in school you have to respect authority. To rebel against a teacher saying their views is seen as disobedient and wrong in society. To challenge authority is not an easy task, especially when they’re responsible for your grade. In teachers’ defense, everyone can interpret a phrase they heard during a lecture in a different way than the way the teacher had intended it to be understood. This isn’t the case when a teacher pulls up pictures of the sky he took himself and claims he has proof of aliens for a good portion of a 3-hour-long class. I felt compelled to leave the class but I was certain I must have been missing a point or an explanatory email. As a result of this there are at least a few more students in the world that believe in aliens.

Pseudoscience does not belong in schools. Opinion being taught in U.S. government class is on the same level as psychic surgery being taught in medical school.  Biases are exactly the same. Schools need to focus on the world as we can prove it. We can’t teach untrue concepts because of many reasons. First, people need to know about the world we’re in. With everyone learning about the world in the sky that may or may not exist we’re wasting valuable time when we could use to investigate the truly wondrous place we inhabit. Secondly, religion and political views cause wars. We could be teaching communication and about culture to bring people together. It comes down to time being spent on the right subjects we’re educating our citizens on because time is truly theirs in the end. 

The solution is that sciences of all divisions should be focused on. Teachers control the future of any given place. Biases continue throughout regions because teachers reinforce them. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area the people are generally seen as liberal and it’s evident in schools. In my health class we had a transgender woman speak to the class on her lifelong struggles with being biologically male. We felt for her through similar experiences. Although I believe it was a beautiful lesson, it just might not have taken place elsewhere in the country. That day the class learned compassion for the LGBT community. This reinforces the opinions of people in specific regions. Larger examples of this can be seen globally in schools. Perhaps it’s not bad that opinions change by region but until people can find peace in their contradicting opinions it’s best that everyone can at least come to a consensus.