Left wing or right wing

or something else?
There is a professor of politics in Downunder who has made more of a name for himself as a newspaper columnist, television presenter, and on social media than as an actual academic. His left wing friends see him as right of centre. His right wing friends seem him as left of centre. Perhaps he is middle of the road.
I have no problem with university staff having political views. They should have views, the views of intelligent voters on all sides. I have no problem with them being called on to explain or even comment on government decisions or opposition statements. They have a valuable role to play in helping to educate the wider public about what is going on.
I do have a problem when people like him wield so much influence their views are taught as being absolutely right with no room for argument. 
These people are members of the "I am right and you are wrong" sect.  It is a dangerous one. It does not allow for the views of others to be heard - even so that those views can be refuted.
What really alarms me is that this sect seems to have a grip in education in schools as well.  A parent showed me something her child was being taught yesterday. She was alarmed and so was her husband.
    "We tried to explain to S.... (their son) that there was another side to this. He insists we are wrong because the teacher is always right. He told us "it's what everyone thinks". We approached the teacher about it and she told us that this is what was being taught and she felt it was wrong to confuse him. She didn't actually say so but I could see she thought we were the stupid ones because we didn't believe what she was telling the students. S... says that if he doesn't say what she has told them in his assignment he will fail."
Yes, he probably will - no matter how carefully he puts it.  
This child was being taught about "gender fluidity". He was, rightly, confused and upset. He believes he is male, that his twin sisters are female. He also knows that the two men who live further down his street are a couple. His parents sometimes invite them down for coffee on a Sunday morning. They have been open about the relationship and S.... thought he understood this. Yesterday he was confused.
    "I can always be a boy can't I?" he asked.
That is not a question any child should ever have to ask. The very rare child who will later determine they feel the need to change gender  is not being helped by lessons about gender fluidity.  It is probably confusing them even more. It is also confusing and upsetting children like S.... 
Why not simply teach them that a small number of people feel differently -  if you must teach such things at all. Right now I would have thought that schools had more important things to teach.