Re: Mexican flags in Denver Public Schools Classrooms?

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:51:35 GMT, "Byron Canfield"
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>"Oliver Costich" <olc-caNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:26:59 GMT, "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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>> >>>> 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.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Not just diversity but almost anything other than real learning.
>> Subjects that require real substantive knowledge are far too difficult
>> for theachers, much less the students.
>>
>In a world were there are still those of questionable human integrity,
such
>as yourself, teaching how to get along with other people is hardly less
than
>substantive knowledge -- it's essential for the survival of the planet.
The
>hope in such an effort is that the xenophobe/racists will eventually
become
>extinct.

The school is not there to teach that. That is something their parents
and their churches should be teaching them. Exactly when was it that
the school became nothing more than a babysitting service? Oh yeah,
when ignorant fools such as you decided that it was more im****tant to
learn about multiculturalism instead of the basics, which by the way
we are lucky when kids come out of the school system with any
knowledge at all about.