And he gets all his info on it from right-wing websites. So he thinks he understands what “Chris’s dopey colleagues” do, but he doesn’t. He believes in a caricature.
He doesn’t understand that scholars have constant debates about most issues, and try to gather evidence to see who is right. I have no use what the debates are over the effectiveness of corporal punishment and detention and such in schools...but neither does he. He saw a story on one of his favorite websites.
But since he is our expert-on-everything, there is no talking to him about it.