Re: Mexican flags in Denver Public Schools Classrooms?

"stvfrmco" <gassasb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "David Eduardo" <amdavid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Cotton Eyed Joe" <mdginzo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Donna Metler" <dmmetler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> Here's my first question-what classroom, in what context? It wasn't
> >>> uncommon
> >>> when I was in high school for foreign language cl***** to have flags
of
> >>> the
> >>> countries where the language was spoken on display. Not in the same
way
> >>> as
> >>> the US flag, but as an artifact.
> >>
> >> Not only that.  When I was in school we had all sorts of education in
> >> foreign languages and cultures - up to and including native dances
and
> >> literature.
> >
> > Apparently Xenophobia 101 has replaced language and world history. And
the
> > Luddites go marching along....
> >
>
> No, Diversity 101 has replaced science and calculus.  Instead of
producing
a
> student population that can put men on Mars, we have public schools
teaching
> kids native dances and cultural awareness.  Now, if the class will spit
on
> the American flag and celebrate the sister city in Cuba, we'll show
slides
> of the land redistribution in Zimbabwe and take donations to send food
to
> the starving Africans while Kofi Annan pushes "free market" reform for
> farming in the Western world.

Yeah, let's just nuke the rest of the world! We don't need 'em -- just
their
oil and other natural resources.


-- 
Byron "Barn" Canfield
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"Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
principles."
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