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Teacher proclaims Twain, Lee and Steinbeck irrelevant in Obama age
Guardian ^ | Alison Flood

Posted on 01/27/2009 7:26:36 AM PST by big black dog

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To: VanillaBlizzard

Especially at the highschool level.


21 posted on 01/27/2009 7:36:11 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: big black dog

Guess that means I better get rid of my Richard Pryor albums, huh?


22 posted on 01/27/2009 7:36:15 AM PST by NRA1995 ("Yew jes' go & lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan & Ah think yore gonna finally understand")
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To: Sherman Logan

Especially Huckleberry Finn. Twain took no prisoners in that novel.


23 posted on 01/27/2009 7:37:27 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: big black dog
I wonder if this moron has ever actually read Huckleberry Finn ... the only purely sympathetic adult character in the whole novel is Nigger Jim. It's about as anti-racist as you can get, without being a boring, pedantic screed.
24 posted on 01/27/2009 7:37:28 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: big black dog
An American English teacher has called for novels which use the word "nigger" to be removed from the high school curriculum

But of course, "The Vagina Monologues" is acceptable reading......

25 posted on 01/27/2009 7:37:32 AM PST by NRA1995 ("Yew jes' go & lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan & Ah think yore gonna finally understand")
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To: big black dog
speaking of useless books...

I am on disability for back surgeries in the last two years

going to school for vocational rehab

I have to take over Lit and Comp because the school I am in doesnt accept my previous Comp courses as equivalent

Anyways, yesterday was day one
Our syllabus included watching and commenting on BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN, PERSEPOLIS : http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=h1&oq=back%20to%20black%20ending%20internalized%20racism&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS220US220&q=persepolis+%2b+lesbian

and other “Gender” issues
Other writers included someone named bell, who wrote so much anti-white stuff it was sickening just to google his comments: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=h3&oq=persepolis%20+%20lesbian&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS220US220&q=back+to+black+ending+internalized+racism

also, in one of the required readings of the lit book, the author said that 4 hypothetical understandings of Hawthorne's SCARLETT LETTER were Hester Pryne’s liberation, Hawthorne's bourgeoisie (sp?) attitudes and hidden emotions from some Freudian author

complete and total indoctrination

I went and dropped the course and transferred to another course I needed for graduation

26 posted on 01/27/2009 7:37:45 AM PST by RaceBannon (We have sown the wind, but we will reap the whirlwind. NObama. Not my president.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Freudian typo.

The teacher in question is theoretically male.


27 posted on 01/27/2009 7:38:06 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Badeye
There is never anything quite so ridiculous as a high school english teacher. So full of themselves

As a former high school English teacher, I'd like to remind you that generalizations are almost always wrong. Literally thousands of students can thank me for introducing them to Ayn Rand (Anthem), the major founding documents of our nation and even Dr. Thomas Dooley.

Lee, Steinbeck and especially Twain are American writers: therefore, they are part of American Literature. I agree there are many teachers who are "too big for their britches," but I'm sure there were parents who hated that I taught Catcher in the Rye too.

I suspect the idiot who came up with the idea of banning novels of historical and literary significance would be just as arrogant if he taught physics or physical ed.

28 posted on 01/27/2009 7:38:41 AM PST by MSSC6644 (Defeat Satan. Pray the Rosary)
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To: big black dog

No big surprise here; those “sanitization” policies worked great for Stalin.


29 posted on 01/27/2009 7:39:38 AM PST by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: big black dog

Just those? Let’s not forget Thomas Wolfe and William Faulker and Ernest Hemingway.......


30 posted on 01/27/2009 7:43:23 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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To: Vaquero

If this were done, I wonder if Hussein would be proud of the fact that books are being banned in his “honor”?


31 posted on 01/27/2009 7:43:29 AM PST by big black dog
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To: Vaquero

Well they need to get all those rap songs off the little heathens MP3 players if that’s a problem.


32 posted on 01/27/2009 7:44:10 AM PST by dblshot
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To: big black dog
Yup...dead proof that Libtards choose to ignore or honestly confront anything with history and fact if it resembles a possibility of something that could crumble their fragile mental existence.

I know old black ladies and gentlemen that laugh with a loving glint in their eye when ignorant vile people use it to attempt to belittle their kind. However, is the English teacher willing to let us completely remove all blacks from society that refer to each other on the street every day that call each other 'nigger'??

33 posted on 01/27/2009 7:44:31 AM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: big black dog

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

Great book, and one of my all time favorite movies.

The liberal Gregory Peck was superb in that film.

5***** stars


34 posted on 01/27/2009 7:46:23 AM PST by Semper Mark (Born free, Will live free, And will die free)
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To: big black dog

Ahhh, the finer points of today’s education system...suppressing information, inhibiting learning, teaching propaganda rather than fact. Makes me so proud of our schools.


35 posted on 01/27/2009 7:47:43 AM PST by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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To: MSSC6644

I hated Catcher in the Rye, AND Catch 22. They spoke nothing to me, especially when the teacher was telling me how the protagonist in Catcher was “obviously brilliant, a genius” and how Yossarian was more of a patriot than anyone else in Catch 22.

Bravo Sierra on her, but good on you for introducing your students to literature of depth.

Colonel, USAFR


36 posted on 01/27/2009 7:48:24 AM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: big black dog
It must be taught throughout the land that Barack Obama came to stop all racism by ending the rule of the racist group called “The Republicans” the source of all darkness and evil.

For the good of all citizens, both great and small, The Great "O" cast out the evil regime, banishing them from any further evil influence upon the peaceful people of this Nation and the entire world forever.

Citizens of the world:

All Praise the "O"

From him all good things flow.

He is good, He is great.

May his divine face shine upon us all.

37 posted on 01/27/2009 7:49:00 AM PST by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: Badeye
"There is never anything quite so ridiculous as a high school english teacher.

So full of themselves."

Not ALL of us...

38 posted on 01/27/2009 7:49:41 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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Ridiculous approach. Personally, I favor boycotting any Obama books......or anything he writes.

If we are going call anything or anyone "irrelevant", can we begin with Biden, Pelosi and Reid? That would be a great start.

39 posted on 01/27/2009 7:50:15 AM PST by NoRedTape
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To: big black dog

Um, have to get rid of a bunch of “popular” music as well.


40 posted on 01/27/2009 7:50:15 AM PST by fightinJAG (Good riddance, UAW.)
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