[Jonah Hex]

This is really so sad. It breaks my heart to see a supposedly educated person dismiss the greatest dramatist in literature as "some old white guy". My gods, woman, have you no soul? Are you so willing to deny to others the soul-stirring joy of experiencing Henry V, Richard II, Hamlet, and the Scottish Play?

If this "teacher" isn't ^%$#-canned ASAP, then the public education system in this land of the free is truly broken beyond repair.

Has 1984's MiniTruth arrived after a delay of 31 years?

[TontoKowalski]

This is really so sad. It breaks my heart to see a supposedly educated person dismiss the greatest dramatist in literature as "some old white guy". My gods, woman, have you no soul? Are you so willing to deny to others the soul-stirring joy of experiencing Henry V, Richard II, Hamlet, and the Scottish Play?

This woman teaches minority students, and although she dresses it up in new-speak progressive language, what she's really saying is, "My students cannot grasp these universally revered works, so I'm going to substitute cultural fluff and pretend they're being taught."

I have a friend who teaches English in a rural high school, mix of whites and blacks, and after she got tired of hearing her students beg, she just gave in and focuses her entire senior English curriculum around Shakespeare. They read it, have group discussions, watch the plays on DVD, write how the major themes apply to their own lives, write comparisons of the plays, etc. etc. Some classes have bought the plays themselves, and then donate them to her classroom so she has a classroom set for next year.

She used to do just one Shakespeare play, but the kids begged to do more rather than move to other authors.