Prog, I can tell you I went to school in south Louisiana--no bastion of liberal thinking--and I had an experience with an extreme conservative teacher/coach who "taught" our AP English class. He spent all day talking with the football players about how he "harpooned whales," etc. in his fraternity days in college, and gave me a C on my "interim report" because I didn't engage in what he euphemistically called "college preparatory discussions," even though I was one of a small handful of kids in the class who actually did my homework assignments and made good grades on the tests. You are gonna get all kinds of people teaching kids, particularly in public schools like the one I attended. Wackos come in all ideological stripes.