I didn't think I was going to say that anymore. High school students are teenagers, right? The age when they learn that an adult's opinion is not sacrosanct or even sane? When they have their own opinions? 150 of them have walked out to protest their teacher's absence, so I guess so. Intimidation in the classroom? In the transcripts, one of the student interjects. Shouldn't expose uncomfortable truths? That's the age they learn such concepts and they don't take you seriously if all you do is spout the official line. You don't get political education from a mainstream, middle American.
When even the academics won't defend debate, democracy is in trouble. The school board didn't even tell the teacher to invite guest speakers. And if anybody asks, I'd have no problem with a teacher stating that the US must bomb Iran before they acquire the A-bomb. No matter what the opinion, there'll be plenty of students jumping up and asking "So, what about...?" Just don't teach politics to the pre-teens.
Run! Get out while you can! Before you're fired for disagreeing with Fox News in public. Before you become a name on an unwritten, 'unpatriotic' list. Before your computer is seized during investigations of sedition. Before your blackened reputation makes your friends and family guilty by association. Before you can no longer obtain a passport. Before you are forced to become an asylum seeker.