There is never anything quite so ridiculous as a high school english teacher.
So full of themselves.
I hope he includes the term guilt-ridden white males of
unknown sexual leanings!
No offense to teachers (I work at a school district) but he’s right, High school English teachers were SOOO cocky and arrogant.
What is it about SOME teachers thinking because of their profession that the world owes them something?
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.
So full of themselves."
Not ALL of us...
My HS english teachers were absolutely terrific! My college English Lit. teacher, on the other hand... Well, he was one of those who figured that his master's degree in English made him an expert at everything else too.
Fixed it for ya. ;)
“And he never wants “to rationalise Huck Finn to an angry African-American mom again as long as I breathe”.
Dont br too hard on him. He’s skeered.