Professors, stick to teaching

Over the past couple years of being at college I have noticed a little something about most, not all, of the professors I've had here at Longwood. That something is the fact that they tend to interject not just their opinion on certain subjects, but their political opinion. I don't mind that they have their own personal political opinion on these subjects, but what I DO mind is the attitude they have regarding that opinion which is theirs.

I'm a history major for one and if I wanted to bicker over political views regarding the subjects we study, then I would've declared as a Political Science major. Keep what's political science in it's own realm and do your job as a HISTORY professor, please!

I don't even mind if the professors insert some of their political opinion; afterall, who can go a whole day without referring to something political in manner? I know I can't. The REAL problem I have is when a student speaks up and questions a professor's political opinion, that the professors usually shoots them down and in the process become smart-asses and proceeds to write that student off as ignorant.

First of all, if you (the professor) are going to bring up your political opinion, you had better be prepared to expect a student with a differing view to speak up. And when that student speaks up, you better receive his political opinion with an open-mind just as you expect students to.

I really have nothing against liberals, just as long as they don't interrupt something non-political to insert their political opinion and try to "convert" students who do not share the same view. And when a student disagrees, just remember, you brought it up! Also, take it like a man when we prove you wrong -- that is all.