[jughandle]

“...students shouldn’t be expected to study a “a long-dead, British guy” “

Guilt-ridden liberal? Careful sorting it out by race there, teacher. By that standard we shouldn’t be expected to learn about the history of any minority. (Slaves? They’re all long-dead, shouldn’t be taught in schools)

[windcliff]

ping

[SampleMan]

I have money that she has them read other dead authors, so the sole issue is that she doesn’t like whites.

That said, I think Shakespeare self-identified as a living black woman.

[rjsimmon]

“Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior?”

Such as? Show me the grand civilizations that have arisen out of Africa? What devices have been conceived out of the African mind that has taken them to other worlds? Where are the cures and remedies that the African medical world has concocted? The libraries of thought that have been transcribed to parchment? The art that fills their museums?

There are none because the African mind cannot conceive of anything greater than itself.

[Banjoguy]

She’s definitely lacking in understanding the effect of reading human drama themes and Shakespearean historical contexts. Theatrical constructs and command of the language are also among the lessons...of course if the students are too stupid or unwilling, then maybe she’s right.....

[RckyRaCoCo]

Fully immersed in the Kool-Aid.

[Jonah Hex]

This is really so sad. It breaks my heart to see a supposedly educated person dismiss the greatest dramatist in literature as "some old white guy". My gods, woman, have you no soul? Are you so willing to deny to others the soul-stirring joy of experiencing Henry V, Richard II, Hamlet, and the Scottish Play?

If this "teacher" isn't ^%$#-canned ASAP, then the public education system in this land of the free is truly broken beyond repair.

Has 1984's MiniTruth arrived after a delay of 31 years?

[JimRed]

What’s the excuse for not teaching Booker T. Washington, teach?

[notaliberal]

Luther Burbank High School, in Sacramento,——there is a staff directory with email. Have fun!

[grimalkin]

She confesses that she has a “personal disinterest in reading stories written in an early form of the English language that I cannot always easily navigate.”

In other words, she's stupid.

[Fightin Whitey]

Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa?

[melancholy]

But...but Islamists in Egypt, Syria and Iraq claimed that he is an Arab called Sheikh Zubier and that Shakespeare came from “shake-spear!”

Gee, now I’m really confused.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[RinaseaofDs]

What African culture ever did anything for the freedom of anybody, including themselves?

By the way, by dint of the fact they ended up in your classroom, their culture just became “American.”

Can’t have your culture and eat it too. If you live here, your culture is American.

The very fact they are here and not there should be the end of the argument.

[alexander_busek]

“Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior?” She suggests. “Why not teach translations of early writings or oral storytelling from Latin America or Southeast Asia other parts of the world? Many, many of our students come from these languages and traditions … perhaps we no longer have the time to study the Western canon that so many of us know and hold dear.”

I'd like to bet that many of those "oral traditions" were transcribed and translated by "dead old White men."

In any event, I'll always choose to read a work in the original, if I'm at all conversant in it.

Regards,

[Cementjungle]

Surely there must be many, many great literary works written in Ebonics.

[PATRIOT1876]

Martin Luther King wouldn’t have approved of the racism taught by this “teacher”

[PATRIOT1876]

You would have few subjects to teach if you left out Eurocentrism.

Most of the progress and great ideas came from Europe and former European colonies.

[a fool in paradise]

I thought he was a Klingon.

[a fool in paradise]

THAT’ll show him.