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David Horowitz writes about a *cough* debate he was invited to participate in at Pacific Palisades High School.
One snippet of what he encountered is disturbing:
Indoctrination in High SchoolI'm all for discussion of all aspects of any given arguments, but this is exactly the type of complete crap that I worry about my kid being inundated with in school. Even in Junior High.When I arrived at Pali High, the auditorium was filling up. I introduced myself to more than a dozen of the teenagers present and asked them if they knew why they were there. Only about four did. All of them said they were there because their teachers had brought them there. One of the students said the same group had been shown an antiwar film by the same English Department teachers a few days earlier.One of the teachers present was wearing a t-shirt with a picture of John Brown on the front and a political slogan advocating the use of force and violence to overthrow governments that were unjust. Of course, slavery is an issue that was decided 140 years ago, so obviously the incitement to armed revolution was directed at some other injustice. When I visited this teacher’s classroom some days later this suspicion was confirmed by the posters of Che Guevara and Mother Jones she had adorning her English classroom walls, along with a sign that said, "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam."
And this also speaks volumes about the different teacher's abilities to formulate an argument: they cannot, so they subject their students to listen in the name of teaching.
And exactly how does American English relate to the war in Iraq? It doesn't and that makes this all the more inane.
Yes - nothing says 'reasoned arguement' more than forcing students to listen to your weak arguments under the guise of education....
Yep. Got my vote on that one.
Read more in Captive AudienceI gotta agree on this, keep that personal crap out of the class room. That includes any kind of p
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Yogimus said:
Teachers need to face an election cycle every 2 years.
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Teachers need to face an election cycle every 2 years.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 6, 2005 12:10 PM ||I gotta agree on this, keep that personal crap out of the class room. That includes any kind of prayer or pledge.
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 01:48 AM ||Yep. Got my vote on that one.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 06:23 PM ||