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"I highly doubt teaching something like "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", which is written by a Marxist and starts with the presumption the audience is "oppressed",

"I highly doubt teaching something like "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", which is written by a Marxist and starts with the presumption the audience is "oppressed", is going to contribute much to the success of the students in American society" Did you see the results the ethnic studies track had? Huge success. "I have hard time figuring out why one would object to such premise and insist that pupils in government schools should be taught racial hate or resentment." But teaching the real history of the US isn't resentment; the act of teaching these books, which may use less mainstream language, is being conflated with teaching resentment against white people and teaching only to latin@ people, at the expense of white people (it's right there in the lawsuit) -- in other words, "PC". It's a complicated issue and the website isn't the most well-designed, I admit. Not the best example; Zionism is a better one.

smsm42 13y ago
I didn't see the results. I've seen claims about the results, not substantiated by anything, and on the face of it they are very hard to believe. I find here[1] that MASS does a lot of helpful things, like math classes, which are undoubtedly helpful. However it has nothing to do with teaching Marxism, "oppression" and "ethnic studies". 1. http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/contents/depart/mexicanam/index.asp http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/contents/depart/mexicanam/index.as... >>> But teaching the real history of the US isn't resentment If by "real history" one means teaching students that they are eternally oppressed by powers beyond their control, what else but resentment that can breed? >>> Not the best example; Zionism is a better one. What this has to do with Zionism? Zionism is a movement that proclaims existence of Jewish state, namely Israel, and the desire of Jews to live there. Such existence is a fact, and will remain the fact in foreseeable future. Nothing here has any connection to the topic as far as I can see.

smsm42 13y ago

I didn't see the results. I've seen claims about the results, not substantiated by anything, and on the face of it they are very hard to believe. I find here[1] that MASS does a lot of helpful things, like math classes, which are undoubtedly helpful. However it has nothing to do with teaching Marxism, "oppression" and "ethnic studies". 1. http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/contents/depart/mexicanam/index.asp http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/contents/depart/mexicanam/index.as... >>> But teaching the real history of the US isn't resentment If by "real history" one means teaching students that they are eternally oppressed by powers beyond their control, what else but resentment that can breed? >>> Not the best example; Zionism is a better one. What this has to do with Zionism? Zionism is a movement that proclaims existence of Jewish state, namely Israel, and the desire of Jews to live there. Such existence is a fact, and will remain the fact in foreseeable future. Nothing here has any connection to the topic as far as I can see.