Conservative H.S. Student Calls Out Leftist Quiz Question Targeting 'Angry Right Wing'

Political questions on a high school quiz? That’s to be expected. But an instructor at a Florida high school took it to a level parents were not in agreement with. 

John Blackford, an Advanced English teacher at St. Augustine High School in St. John's County, Fla., gave his students a quiz with questions blatantly advertising his leftist agenda. 

Question seven of the “fill-in-the-blank”-style exam reads, “Right when it appeared the nation was becoming increasingly tolerant of alternative lifestyles, immigration, and minorities, the vocal and angry right wing forced the nation to make a complete __________ embracing bigotry, xenophobia, and sexism.”

The question caught the attention of Logan Parham, a student of Blackford's class and also a founding member of the institution’s Republican club. He snapped a photo of the test and sent it to his mother.

“So I go and I read number 7, and I was just -- pretty shocked,” Parham told WKMG. “The words that they used seemed to be like very degrading words.”

Logan’s mother posted the image on Facebook to see if she and her son were having an overreaction to the question. She found that many of her friends also took issue with the quiz question, according to WKMG. 

“It leads people, I think, to believe that anyone who leans towards the Right, is a sexist, or racist, or bigot,” she told the station.  

In response to parents' outrage, the high school issued a letter addressing the question on the quiz, according to WJAX, which reminded the teacher that he should “take reasonable precaution to distinguish between personnel views and those of any educational institution or organization with which the individual is affiliated.”

It was also made clear that Blackford should be “exercising good judgement” when dealing with topics that can be of a “sensitive nature.”

Check out the videos from WJAX and WKMG below: