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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: Right Wing Professor

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.'

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education. Parents, teachers, and principals, in private setting, should be the people deciding how the origins of life be presented to the children.


631 posted on 04/21/2006 6:26:13 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
and so you're taking the multiculturalist left position the article is attacking. What on earth gave you the idea you were a conservative?

I'm trying to keep track of how many leftist positions the CRIDers take:

- ID should be taught in science class even though it has not proven its qualifications (affirmative action)

- CRIDers get to decide what words mean, changing the language of science (Ebonics)

- We need to pass laws to protect the faith/feelings of certain groups (Doug's General Theory of Liberalism)

I eagerly await the answer to the question you posed above.

649 posted on 04/21/2006 8:03:48 AM PDT by LibertarianSchmoe
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To: Right Wing Professor
What on earth gave you the idea you were a conservative?

You mean stuff like this isn't convervative?

738 posted on 04/21/2006 8:10:02 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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