Re: Mexican flags in Denver Public Schools Classrooms?

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:51:46 -0500, "Lets Roll"
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>"Byron Canfield" <barnNOSPAM@[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.
>>
>
>You are sicko.
>Just because we don't want all 6 billion people in the world for
neighbors a 
>half block away, you don't have to nuke all of them.

Not all, but those rotten Mexicans probably need a dose of the
unmistakable warning.