Did the mainstream media – or Time magazine, specifically – ever try to find Barack Obama’s high school teachers?

Unlikely, but the magazine managed to dig up Gov. Scott Walker’s high school science teacher for her reaction to Walker’s “punt” of a question about evolution.

The kerfuffle started when Justin Webb, a BBC presenter, asked the governor, “Are you comfortable with the idea of evolution? Do you believe in it? Do you accept it?”

“For me, I’m going to punt on that one,” Walker responded, according to the Washington Examiner. “That’s a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other, so I’m going to leave that up to you.”

He was immediately raked over the coals by Washington media and Walker issued a more thorough answer, via Twitter:

Sensing the next big scandal, Time magazine sought the input of Walker’s high school science teacher, Ann Serpe, who promptly scolded her former student.

“Answer the question when they ask you!” Serpe, now 73, tells Time. “He could have manned up a bit. That’s what I would tell him.”

Serpe, who taught chemistry and chaired the math and science department at Delavan-Darien High School in Delavan, Wis., retired in 1998.

Recalling Walker as “an intelligent young man,” his teacher said, “I don’t know the dogma of the Baptist church where Scott’s father was the minister, as it concerns evolution. But I do recall that Scott was very accepting of everything in science class. He had a good sense of it.”

But one just has to wonder: Did the mainstream media seek Barack Obama’s American history teacher when he said he’d visited 57 states, “with one left to go”?

While Obama’s statement was likely a result of misspeaking, the mainstream media glossed over it – and certainly never sought the input of those that would have taught him about the number of states in the union.