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To: Right Wing Professor
We also 'force' math on the poor dears. You don't object to that.

Nobody is forcing high school kids to take biology, They can take shop, if they prefer. What they can't do is neglect to learn about the central paradigm in biology and still claim they've taken biology.
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Even math has political, cultural, and religious consequences, and is NOT neutral. Even math establishes the worldview of some while undermining that of others and it does have religious consequences.

http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/ravitch/20050620.htm

While no one is specifically forced to take biology, they ARE forced to assembly with those who do. A child can not exempt himself from the entire culture of the school. This social environment of other students and teachers will have political, cultural, and religious consequences.
623 posted on 04/21/2006 5:38:37 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: wintertime
Even math has political, cultural, and religious consequences, and is NOT neutral. Even math establishes the worldview of some while undermining that of others and it does have religious consequences.

BWAHAHAHA!. You cited a link critical of ethnomathematics, the postmodernist leftist idea that mathematics is socially constructed. But you don't realize it's the article is critical of ethnomathematics, and so you're taking the multiculturalist left position the article is attacking.

What on earth gave you the idea you were a conservative?

While no one is specifically forced to take biology, they ARE forced to assembly with those who do. A child can not exempt himself from the entire culture of the school. This social environment of other students and teachers will have political, cultural, and religious consequences.

LOL! So we should forgo teaching anything that might offend anyone in the school, even if they themselves don't take the offending course, for fear we contaminate the 'culture.'

Even the crazier pomo lefties on my campus would be hesitant to advance this theory. You can't be for real.

625 posted on 04/21/2006 6:12:16 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: wintertime
A child can not exempt himself from the entire culture of the school. This social environment of other students and teachers will have political, cultural, and religious consequences.

In other words, no one can exempt themselves from the culture in which they live.

Well, some do try. But Muslims living in the West cannot actually exempt themselves from a culture that tolerates satire about things they might feel are holy. And my view of that inability is: tough.

I have seen that our government is selling off some old Cold War-era nuclear bunkers. They aren't too expensive, and sound like something you might find a perfect environment for your approach to raising kids.

No offense, but that's one hell of a weird bee in your bonnet.

626 posted on 04/21/2006 6:17:39 AM PDT by ToryHeartland
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To: wintertime

Even math has political, cultural, and religious consequences, and is NOT neutral. Even math establishes the worldview of some while undermining that of others and it does have religious consequences.

You think math IS NOT politically, culturally, and religiously neutral? What fields of study do you think ARE politically, culturally, and religiously neutral

627 posted on 04/21/2006 6:17:53 AM PDT by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads.)
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