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Old 08-05-2010, 14:47   #664
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Re: 2010 General Election: The Cable Forum Exit Poll

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
Had a chat with my daughter this morning and found out that her teachers at college were spreading all sorts of scare stories about the torys telling all the students that the torys as soon as they got in were going to take away ema and stop all free bus travel for school kids in the whole country. This has made me very very angry as surely there are rules against teachers\tutors politicising their students during class time when they should be teaching them the subject they are paid too.

There seems to have been a lot of lying scare stories and like saab i am wondering how many people fell for it hook line and sinker without bothering to check any facts. Seems to me this election has not been a great episode for our country apart from the completely underhanded way lies have been spread the polling station situation also stinks to high hell. Only plus point is that i don't think any coalition is going to last long so we will all get the chance to vote again soon.

i've always understood that teachers cannot voice their own personnal political views in classtime ,they can only teach facts about politics ,and of course they must be correct ,which the ones you mention ,to my knowledge are not