Multiculturalism in the classroom
Let the textbook publishers and your school districts know what you think, also.
I teach 10th grade English, and the textbooks we adopted last year, published by Prentice Hall, feature an essay by Barack Hussein Obama entitled "What I See Through Lincoln's Eyes." This book was adopted LAST summer, in 2008, when Obama was running for president.
I cannot blame my school district, however; all the publishers of textbooks have swallowed the Kool Aid and they (those elite from around the country) who decide what our children need to learn are rubbing multiculturalism and leftist ideology in our faces so hard that it's becoming frustrating and even NAUSEATING to try to deal with these books and teach them to my students.
There has been a concerted effort to rid our textbooks of as many white writers as possible. Quality just doesn't matter anymore. It's all political. Maya Angelou will be given more space than Shakespeare.
I'm not saying that Angelou isn't a good writer; I'm just saying we are going overboard in trying to include as many minorities and women as possible, while failing to question if this material is the very BEST we can offer our students.. Given the richness of the western canon of literature from both England and America, we should not have to shove Mexican or Chinese poems into our kids' faces as the standard of excellence when we know that they really are not the best the English langauge has to offer. . Again, I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with them, but when they supplant Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe, well, that's cheating the students. We are lowering standards so that nobody feels left out. Educators "in the know" say it gives them a richness of experiencene. Well, I think they are already getting that with the changing demographics of this country. Why can't we expose them to Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, and Tennyson like we used to? What is so wrong with our culture that we have to replace the great literature of Western Civilization with the drivel of third world countries?
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Permalink Reply by Marge Wall on -
Unfortunately, the only culture not protected or respected is our own.
There is a difference between willingly including other cultures in our Society, our schools and the aggressive intrusion of other cultures with the intent to overwhelm and supplant what is already established and what we consider our own.
The denigration of our culture in order to celebrate the culture of other countries is not welcome and yes, it is resented.
Are we now supposed to believe that our response is not a natural one?
Are we supposed to also, now believe that, we are not justified in protecting, preserving and perpetuating our own culture?
Are we supposed to allow all of this to start with our own children without fighting back?
Marge
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Permalink Reply by John P. on -
I can confirm that this is all true I SADLY went to Public School and Oh My God the textbooks Sucked horribly trying to brainwash us. I just wish I had kept a few of them to post as examples of the dirtbag crap there teaching us. Political Correctness has gone WAY too far in Society.
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Permalink Reply by norman shipes on
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Parents should go to schoolboard meetings and make their demands known. I do not have children of school age anymore but if I did I would be making all meetings. All books should be read and preapproved prior to giving them out for the students to study and I dont mean by the liberals. It is the duy of the parents who have students in public schools to keep an eye on the schoolboards in their area. Better yet maybe all tax payers should make it a point to attend the meetings since this is our tax money they are spending and the future of our country and our society depends on it...
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