It must be eliminated to stop the Communist infiltration.
You know, you don’t actually have to excerpt your *own* blog (unless you really don’t want to post your own work, for fear of being sued for copyright violation by yourself). Excerpting yourself just makes you a blog pimp, cruising for hits instead of sharing what you wrote so we can judge for ourselves whether your writings are worth visiting your site.
Last April I was at a high school one evening to attend an event. I noticed a flier in a glass encased bulletin board as I was walking down the main corridor. It was an announcement for a meeting of the International Socialists club. A student told me it was the most popular club in the school.
Welcome to FR. Great post!
The universities went that way in English departments a long time ago, and that’s where the teachers have been educated. So it’s no surprise to some of us.
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I was very fortunate to send my daughter to a private school.
I just can not imagine subjecting a “young mind full of slush”
to ANY Pubic (sic) school today.
Too hard for the teacher or the student?
My guess is for the former.
More and more the quality of person going in to teaching seems to be the lazy and willfully ignorant. The type of person that is interested in working 9 months out of the year and getting an early retirement and government benefits.
A hard book to read is a hard book to teach. Talk about grade inflation now we have education deflation.
My senior English teacher re-read every book he taught every year and he taught for thirty years.
Eileen attended NJ public schools and went to a Catholic HS. She earned a BA at Smith in Mass. She went on to earn her Masters at UNC Chapel Hill, taking a Black Lit class from Blyden Jackson and getting an A. Her continuing ed classes include seminars at the Steinbeck Institute in CA and at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Needless to say, all the students want to get her. One of her female students received a $120,000 ACADEMIC scholarship from Stanford last year. A male got a similar award at BYU.
The senior textbook has a picture of Nelson Mandela next to the poem "Invictus" by Henry David Thoreau and there are lots of liberal propaganda woven in as the author of this thread attests. The District high school curriculum is mostly crap, and the average students suffer especially because of the subject matter and poorly educated teachers.
In the honors classes, the teachers and curricula are better, but the teachers in their twenties and thirties are mostly the product of Liberal State colleges who major in Education. One English teacher who majored in Health and coaches the football team.
I would advise parents of HS students to inquire about the educational background of their English teachers. Many parents are now opting to send their kids to Community College HS or to take their English classes online.
Classical schools are popping up all over the country. Obviously, parents want something better for their kids.
I was perusing my brother’s NJEA magazine yesterday. There was an article on high school “literature.” A student who was interviewed actually said that they couldn’t read books about “guns or religion.”