Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@borg.com>]

YEP, Art:   most times it's ALL about PERSONAL or PRIVATE agendas in the 
classroom, rather than class consciousness.

But, then, again, that's what we get from the social studies curriculum 
that's lost it's punch in the pabulum we're force fed since kindergarten 
about the Mythology of America's *Golden Age*!

Even George Schmidt will have to acknowledge that the only REAL 
political change that's ever occured--if even for only a half-generation 
in these USofAmeriKKKa--has been bought with blood in the streets. And 
_this_ MATH Teacher has to remind you as well as the George Schmidts, as 
well.

Don't believe me, look to the graves and the prison roles for the proof, 
yourselves! Start w/the Whiskey Rebellion (Geo Washington was the 
BIGGEST distiller in the New Republic and had HIS agenda honed in my 
Homestate, go on through the Civil War, PAST the first Roosevelt, 
remember the Veteran's Camps shot through by MacArthur and his 
goons...my Uncle Jimmy told me tales about those unionists shot in the 
head in the mines near my home town for organizing, go past Jim Crow, 
into the Civil Rights movements, and don't just stop @ Kent State...

...your glibness is such a wasted effort, Art; why not apply some 
brainpower and a lacing of compassion when you write?

Retirement hasn't done you ANY favours, apparently, nor us, indeed!   
;-} rap.

ABurke5054@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/9/2006 5:53:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> rparkany@borg.com writes:
>
>     ...when teachers like I and many others I know are denied tenure
>     or outright fired for teaching socially constructivist curriculae
>     rather than drill & kill scripted fodder OR run up head-long into
>     some parochial, old gals network (80% of the teachers in our
>     middle schools in Utica are FEmale and BOY! do they entrench odd
>     agendas OFF the educational map!) we don't get a Hurrah! nor narry
>     a Huzzah! do we?
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> So Parkany says George Bush, the Fordham Foundation, and the Business 
> Roundtable aren't the problem after all.  The real problems are 
> failure to appreciate "socially constructivist curriculae" and that 
> so many teachers are female.  And you learned it right here, in the 
> wacky world of ARN.    
>  
> Art


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