What kind of teachers did he want? He preferred young left-leaning candidates who could be molded into what he wanted. In the elementary school classrooms they would not have to express a political or ideological bias, but just treat left wing positions as the norm, not even subject to debate or discussion. The goal would be to create young Democrats.
He had developed a series of questions that he used in a 30-minute interview to weed out the undesirables. Of course, he could not ask them directly about their religion, or politics but there were ways to guess. If he suspected they were Conservative or Catholic, they would not be considered for the job. He would not even grant interviews with experienced applicants over the age of 40 because they also tended to be stuck in their ways.
The article in the Connecticut Mirror included the 12-minute video in which not once did the administrator indicate an awareness that he was violating a variety of State laws against such discrimination, laws largely drafted by liberals in blue state Connecticut. Neither did he indicate any awareness that he himself was rigid, bigoted, and stuck in his ways.
The exposure of the Greenwich school administrator was the work of an organization called Project Veritas that tries to expose those in public office who engage in such misbehavior. The CT Mirror tried to criticize the organization but there was the video which could not be denied. The cat was out of the bag. The administrator was subsequently suspended pending the inevitable investigations, and even Democratic politicians had to complain about such unfair and bigoted hiring practices.
Nevertheless, I believe that the assistant principal in Greenwich was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I suspect that there are thousands like him all over the country whose goal is not education but indoctrination. It is no secret that more than 90% of college professors are left-leaning Democrats. Faculties at colleges of education, that turn out the teachers, must be even more liberal.
I wonder if the assistant principal actually knows any Catholics or conservatives? Is he unaware of the many outstanding Catholic teachers that have served in Greenwich and other Connecticut public schools for as long as I can remember? Many of them were clients of mine when I worked as a financial advisor. Just like their non-Catholic colleagues, there was the good, the bad, and the ordinary among them.
I recall one Catholic client who was stuck in her ways. She taught in an elementary school in nearby Bridgeport, where her students were mainly minority children. She was generally regarded as the best teacher of reading in the school. For years, she taught under-privileged and disadvantaged children how to read. Reading is the foundation of all learning. When I asked her how she did it, she said she used phonics despite the official method recommend by school administrators. When an administrator planned to visit the classroom, she had the children hide the phonics materials in their desks. When the visitor left, they could get back to the work of learning how to read. It was not a matter of faith with her. Phonics just worked. Her children learned how to read. She was interested in education, not indoctrination. If anything, she was a great teacher because she was Catholic.
A few years ago when an inner-city Catholic parochial school teacher was asked why she taught in a school where most of the students were not Catholic, she replied, “We teach them not because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholic.”
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