u/Dreamchaser2222

Hello all, I am a 17 year old male conservative who has to, unfortunately, go to a very liberal/leftist school environment. Now, this isn’t the end of the world, and actually most of my teachers I believe are very nice and I hope don’t think less of me for my political beliefs as I don’t think less of them. But after what happened today, I think I’d like to vent a little bit about some of the stuff I’ve seen and experienced during my time here.

To explain what I mean, we’re nearing the end of the year in my US History class so we’re on recent presidents. Having a very liberal set of history teachers, of course, you begin to pick up on the not so subtle biases they throw at you. They dunk on Trump any chance they get and constantly glaze Obama, and love bringing up that white men are to blame for everything. To be fair, though, this isn’t so much about my teacher as it is my classmates, because the girls in that class, and most of the school are all very left wing and the things they say about Trump are revolting. Today they essentially called for his death, saying he “should be burned at the stake” and that his “skin would be flammable because it’s old”, and some were cheering about it! The teacher didn’t stop it at all, in fact he mostly laughed it off!

Now, I’m not a fan of Trump personally, but my lord, I almost felt sick while I was in the class. I have one other friend in that class who’s moderate and we both looked at each other in shock as the cheering erupted. I’m almost tempted to tell the principal, but the gay pride flags hung around my school probably is a sign I should avoid telling them, for the safety of my school career. It’s just… if they think that about Trump and also believe I support him, what do they think about me? Should I die too for my beliefs? I’ve worn pro-life shirts to school multiple times.

But that’s the not all of it, other things I’ve seen include:

1. Current events class that might as well be called “Dunk on Trump class” (at least the teacher was fair about letting me speak about my beliefs though) but we were made to watch CNN for many assignments throughout the year.
2. Main guidance counselor is a heavily liberal gay man (this one isn’t an issue, but I thought I’d include it to show I don’t really have anyone I can safely talk to about this)
3. History teachers believing in affirmative action and DEI quotas
4. Most girls have been lesbian in my school at one point or another
5. English teacher hanging a Kamala Harris poster in her room, telling us that she is voting for her and openly supporting abortion and using it on the vocab sentences.
6. Heavy bias in teaching practices (as I’ve said)

And so much more that I forget to name. Shoutout to my Spanish teacher for having to balls to compliment my pro-life shirt though, love you Senora Arquiett.

Anyway, have any other conservative teens had an issue with this? It gets almost exhausting the more it feels like the entire school environment is against everything I believe in, and how it feels like it’s just an indoctrination station that I was lucky to escape. Am I being dramatic?

Thanks for reading ♡

(Happy Men’s Mental Health Month!!)