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Sanity
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"Sanity" <newsgrou...@getalife.ca> wrote in message
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> ......as well as all of the Lefty tards stinkin' up this ng....
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> http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/23/university-of-minnesota-demanding-political-allegiance-for-educators/
"Katherine Kersten wonders when dissent became so unpatriotic"
I'm wondering if she was asleep for the 8 bush years...
policy excerpt:
"The task group recommends, for example, that prospective teachers be
required to prepare an "autoethnography" report. They must describe their
own prejudices and stereotypes, question their "cultural" motives for
wishing to become teachers, and take a "cultural intelligence" assessment
designed to ferret out their latent racism, classism and other "isms." They
"earn points" for "demonstrating the ability to be self-critical.""
writer beefs:
"What's the point of all these confessions?
Isn't the point of teaching to actually teach?"
the point would obviously be there's a difference between empiricism and
subjectivity... and because the line has been blurred so badly throughout
all the country and most particularly in the media over the last number of
years, that to get back to the principles of actually learning and teaching
something new rather than regurgitate what bounces around in like-minded
echo-chambers, one must first indulge in enough introspection to recognize
just how much their attitudes colour their perceptions...
this article smells like nothing more than a reichtoid who's spent their
entire lives focusing on figuring out how to tell people what they think
they want to hear and is now freaking out because they're being asked to be
honest about their own preconceptions...
as far as some people's suspicions of political machinations are concerned,
there's nothing even remotely political in this policy... at least beyond
the recognition that in a modern society, we should be beyond such idiocies
as racism and other bigotries... particularly within institutions of higher
learning...
from the policy:
"Future teachers must also recognize and denounce the fundamental injustices
at the heart of American society, says the task group. From a historical
perspective, they must "understand that . many groups are typically not
included" within America's "celebrated cultural identity," and that "such
exclusion is frequently a result of dissimilarities in power and influence."
In particular, aspiring teachers must be able "to explain how institutional
racism works in schools.""
this is a perfectly rational explanation for attempting to address bigotries
with the goal of rising out of their society-rotting quagmire...
so.... now that I've just pissed off a few reichtoids... bring it on...
start hurling your socialism/communism/social-engineering stupidity... go
ahead... I dare ya.... ;-)