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Date Posted: 16:41:56 03/03/06 Fri
Author: tg
Subject: Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth
In reply to: GarlicSoul 's message, "thanks for the new Nazi Youth" on 11:13:17 03/03/06 Fri

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"there was a concerted effort to break up the more communal/tribal/local forms of education. there is also a quote how the point isn't to produce people (it probably says men, lol) of learning, of letters, artists, poets or great thinkers, but to produce workers. it sounded like cogs in a machine!"

That made me think of Pink Floyd "The Wall" with all those school kids marching into the meat grinder. Anyway, teachers should have some kind of freedom to what they want to talk about to their pupils.

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[> Re: thanks for the new Nazi Youth -- lump, 16:55:22 03/03/06 Fri [1]

On the other hand, a high school teacher is not supposed to be teacher his or her views, but the FACTS. I'm not saying I believe this teacher should be punished at all but I'm not saying that kind of teaching belongs in high school either. That's what college is for. If that teacher hadn't have said what he did towards the end, it would have been completely wrong. This is the same thin line that journalism sits on. Fact/opinion. That can be a tricky line.

Let me switch roles for you in the same situation.

My boss's son was crying hysterically on the morning of elections (Kerry vs. Bush). This child was in elementary school. Anyhow, when asked why he was so upset he said "I don't want Kerry to win." And why, you ask - is this small child so upset that Kerry might win? "Because he's a baby killer." Now these are conservative Republican people, but my boss was shocked! "What do you mean, baby killer?" "My teacher said he thinks it's ok to kill babies." Which is apparantly an abortion issue, unless he's in 23's eating club. Anyhow, this teacher was teaching these kids about the election. Her opinion slips out and you've got problems like this. Absolutely wrong. But it's the same thing.

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