A Brave New World controversy (PC+stupid=censorship)

KIRO ^ | 11-17-10 | Linda Thomas

[windcliff]

For later

[netmilsmom]

>>I guess the Seattle school has no sense of irony that they are banning a book about a socialized future where everyone is happy and completely PC.<<

You win!

[wintertime]

read Shakespeare...
because their parents read trash if they read anything at all).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Read Shakespeare? Another reason that kids learn to hate reading. His plays were meant to be seen, not read.

And?...Where did their parents learn to hate reading?

Oh...... if you think that my kids were ill-educated, as a family, we watched nearly every Shakespeare play on video found in our city's central library, and they looked forward to the Sharkespeare festival every summer.

[wintertime]

What do you think our collectivist indoctrination camps ( oops! “schools”) are like now? Who do you think runs them and teaches in them?

Answer: Communists! ( It's time that we stopped calling them Democrats.)

[Chickensoup]

stupid victim group politics.

The books all my children have to read to leave homeschool highschool

Animal Farm
Brave New World
1984
The Earth Abides
The Long Walk

The Uncle Eric Series
Life on the Edge

[Borges]

I’m not accusing you or your family of being anything. Shakespeare works just fine on paper if he’s presented properly. One can even make the argument that plays like Hamlet and King Lear work better on paper than on stage. The parents not being good readers is more attributable to a general decline in cultural literacy due both to pandering educators not wanting to challenge students (like the ones in this article) and the increasingly dumbed down pop media.

[wintertime]

What is the success rate of our collectivist indoctrination camps ( Oops! “schools”) in producing literate and numerate students? Hm?

How well are homeschoolers doing?

Maybe, just maybe, we should ask homeschoolers what they are doing that is getting the job done.

[Borges]

Myself and many I knew in grad school were quite succesful coming out of school. It’s what you put into it and how much your parents support you. You can’t blame the schools for every student who doesn’t want to work and has parents who don’t care either way.