I agree with Bonos Saint here.
This is NOT a college lecture. This is a high school class, where students are expected to learn on their own, without extracirricular "aids". (SATS and all). Tape recorders/recording devices DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT BELONG IN A HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM. In a freshman college lecture hall, say, Geology 101 with 400 students and arcane mounds of data.
I did not know Hannity encouraged students to bring recording devices into class, so he could air evidence of the supposed "liberal bias in education" on air. Even if it is inappropriate to "rant" in class (though with that disclaimer, you can't qualify it wholly as a rant) it is even more so wrong to have a recording device handy at all times, so you can be the Right (or left-wing) Thought Police. The notion that such as Hannity are training the Young Right to eavesdrop is chilling. Always it is a right-leaning student recording left-wing comments, not the other way around. (Id there have been such instances, I haven't heard of them.)
I wonder if right-leaning speakers at graduations, youth events, etc NEVER went off topic about Bill and Monica to their impressionable high school audiences in the late 90's? COME ON.
This all smacks of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 60's, when Chinese Youth were encouraged to spy on ( and if necessary, help to turn in) parents or relatives who they thought were "running dogs of capitalism." If you think this is a ridiculous analogy, our torture camps are a great place to begin the comparison to what we could become. (I've seen pics of Gitmo where the prisoners are not even aloowed to walk from prison block to prison blocl, but are chained to a sort of 2-wheeled cart and lain flat on their backs and wheeled from place to place.)