Being neutral on important issues is a hard line to walk in the classroom. Students question teachers constantly on how they plan to vote or how they feel about current topics in the news. Legislators in Arizona want to force teachers to keep their opinions to themselves.
In any class, any issue could be discussed as long as the instructor is neutral on the issue and not telling you what your conclusion should be," said the bill's author.
Of course, teachers need to be careful and not turn their classes into forums where they get to express their ideas and influence others to join them. The article on Teacher Magazine's Web Watch mentions concerns that some have about the repercussions of making this bill into law. Could it stifle class discussions and "require educators to bend over backwards to stay on politically neutral ground--for example, by presenting the argument that global warming is not real?"
This is why some students still think their teachers live in the school and aren't real people.