Che in the Classroom - What do your fellow students/teachers

[presidente]

I'm curious -- do you all experience any prejudice in school for your socialist thought or love of Che? I realize there's a lot of anti-leftist bigotry out there; what's going on in your world?

[anger is a gift]

i never did in college. tell you the truth, not many people knew of my beliefs. i had a sticker of CHE on my note book for two years and only once did a professor ask about it. all he asked is do you know who that is? i thought is was a dumb question and i explained to him who che was. of course he knew, just wanted to see if i knew or if i was like that bastard jay-z. you know what is sad? i got a BA in political science and never once did we even mention che in the classroom. that is fucking pathetic!

[PunkRawker677]

I hear ya anger. I'm in the process of getting my BA in Poly science. Che has never come up. Not even in my "Marxist Theory" classes.

[Ian]

Only a few of my friends know I am a marxist, although all my sisters friends know and think its kinda cool. Some people joke and say "When I grow up I wanna be a communist!" and I enjoy telling them about them to make them think 'ohhhhhh-k......'

[Conghaileach]

Most people in my school who know I'm a lefty think of it as weird, in a funny kind of way. A number of teachers know as well. Some are apathetic, one is supportive and one got into an argument with me on socialism. A politics teachers of all people!

In my shcool, leftism is there (very minimally) as a new 'cool' I've seen a first years scribble the Anarchist A-and-circle symbol on a wall, not becuase of any political reason but because his favourite band had used that symbol once. Then there are kids who wear Che shirts (they're for sale in those goth-type stores) and I even saw a kid with a hammer and sickle badge similar to one I have myself.

I'm sure though that they are all very involved in the political scene.

[El Chancho]

The only time Che has ever come up in the classroom is when the teacher saw me with this 850 pg. biography of him (Che-A revolutionary life:Jon L. Anderson) and he asked me about him. People in my school would all the time about him, and this one guy(a fascist I believe) calls me his "commie friend" but I don't consider myself communist because I don't know enough about it, but I'm getting off of the subject.

[Guardia Bolivariano]

Even my dog knows I'm a commie and I people loocked at me like a freak but It's funny but everyone Knows who Che is and the mayority think that he's a hero.

[Libertad]

I am still in high school,i bet probably about 80% of the student body and 90% of the teachers in my school have no idea who El Che was(which is sad).So far he has not come up in any of my classes.But i want to get a few Che pachtes for my backpack and clothes.Meaby that will spark a few questions.:smile:

[death b4 dishonour]

My english teacher encouraged that i read more about him, and helped me to find some other books on him. She said she found him ot be an interesting person. Thats the only teacher in my school I have ever talked to about che.

[paradiso]

Most of my more intelligent/aware friends have had some good discussions with me about Che, the Cuban revolution, and left-wing politics. It has brought out the Socialist in some of them!

[andresG]

"In my shcool, leftism is there (very minimally) as a new 'cool' I've seen a first years scribble the Anarchist A-and-circle symbol on a wall, not becuase of any political reason but because his favourite band had used that symbol once. Then there are kids who wear Che shirts (they're for sale in those goth-type stores) and I even saw a kid with a hammer and sickle badge similar to one I have myself."

-CiaranB

I have a similar story. When I saw a girl with a anarchist patch I went up to her and asked her what her thoughts were on anarchism. She said she hates the world, she hates her parents and fuck everything. I am getting very tired with people like her.




(Edited by andresG at 10:47 pm on Sep. 18, 2002)

[suffianr]

It's a sad case of "extremes" here in Malaysia.

The kids in secondary school were either extremely ignorant or apolitical (a by-product of the education system) or in the case of my one and only fellow leftist, Sam, extremely enlightened. Sure, we had sickle-and-hammer patches sewn on our school bags like any other angry, rebellious teenager, but at least we were interested in what it stood for, and not just trying to show the world we were into Rage Against the Machine.

However, teachers are taught to remain apolitical, which imho perhaps is a good thing, because kids in school should be encouraged to find out more about the world by themselves, instead of being spoon-fed with heaps of information that could possibly confuse them, and end up influencing them with ideas that they're not ready for.

[Marxist Leninist]

Everyone in my school know that i'm communist because i always (almost) wear a Che T-shirt or some thing like that and i always carry around some communist litterature.

Most people think they know what communism is and starts arguing with me but it almost always turns out that thay dont know anything!

The only person ive seen wear a Che T-Shirt Thought Che was the Singer in Rage Against the Machine

[I Will Deny You]

The most right-wing faculty member at the school where I teach is a Democrat. The most left-wing is an anarchist, but he'd never tell his students.

Lindsay

[Conghaileach]

In our school we must wear uniforms (because I'm a senior I get some flexibility in that I can choose my own tie - wow!) so there is very little chance to wear anything political in, unless it's a non-uniform day.

I do, however, have a Starry Plough badge on my coat...

[InnocentCivilian]

i'm at high school and loads of people ask me about ches becasuse they have seen me reading the john lee anderson book. questions have ranged from is he a terrorist to isn't he the lead singer of limp bizkit?
its cool though because i feel i spread the word about che at my school. i also get heckled (in a non serious way) because of my left wing beliefs.

[Goldfinger]

All of my friends know that I'm a socialist, and propably all the teachers. Very few of them oppose, including the other kids. All of the teachers know who Che was, and one of them asked me to write an essay about him, if I wanted to.

[Annelie]

I think it's a shame that most people, especially the youth doesn't know about Che. People in my school don't even bother to ask who he is ... I got some Che T-Shirts and Pullover and some patches in my backpack and I try to provoke with it ... guess most of my teachers know him, but they don't got enough backbones to show or talk about him.

Do you feel angry too, when people don't know who he is? Most the time they've seen his picture, but more then Che they don't know ... that could make me freak! Serioulsy ...

[gazu]

¿Y porque no enseñamos las bondades del Nazismo?, o ¿el buen ejemplo dado por Hitler?.

Dejense de estupideces, cómo se les ocurre que en la escuela se pueda enseñar a los niños las barbaridades y bestialidades pregonadas por ese asesino y terrorista.

[Brasil comunist]

gazu, vai se foder. Deixa de ser corta onda. Esse é um site the comunistas e fãs de Che Guevara. Se você não é, vai procurar outro site e para de encher nossos sacos.


Hasta la victoria siempre!