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Professor requires students write 8-page ‘commitment to social justice’
thecollegefix.com ^ | 01/21/2016 | Jennifer Kabbany

Posted on 01/21/2016 11:57:42 AM PST by massmike

A teacher at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro requires students in her class to write an 8-page commitment to social justice — pupils who take her class because it’s a required course to earn a K-12 teaching credential.

An assignment in instructor Revital Zilonka’s “Institution of Education” class tells future North Carolina teachers that “by the end of the semester, you are required to write your own personal/professional commitment to social justice,” the syllabus states.

The class mandates a list of feminist and Marxist readings, and students’ “commitment” is expected to be up to eight pages long and delve into how they plan to advance social justice “given the new understanding you have by now about society and education,” the syllabus adds.

Zilonka’s syllabus also tells students to Like on Facebook a slate of secular-progressive pages, such as the pro-LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign, Feministing, Million Hoodies for Justice, and the Brown Girl Collective.

Some other required readings and viewings in Zilonka’s section of ELC 381 include:

“Raising Penelope, My Transgender Son,” by Jodie Patterson.

“White Privilege,” by Peggy McIntosh.

“What Matthew Shephard Would Tell Us,” by Doug Risner.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: socialjustice
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Revital Zilonka

1 posted on 01/21/2016 11:57:42 AM PST by massmike
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To: AppyPappy; Littlejon; RegulatorCountry

Spartan pride.


2 posted on 01/21/2016 12:00:18 PM PST by Rebelbase (A new batch of harpies has hatched in time for the 2016 election.)
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To: massmike

Social justice means minding your own damned business and staying out of the lives of people doing no harm to others. It does not mean being forced to engage with freaks, criminals, and others you find personally revolting.


3 posted on 01/21/2016 12:01:26 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: massmike

4 posted on 01/21/2016 12:01:59 PM PST by massmike (US has tightened sanctions on Christian business owners and relaxed sanctions on Iran getting a nuke)
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To: massmike

WOW, I just had a flashback to when they showed kent dorfman on the screen in Animal House!


5 posted on 01/21/2016 12:03:46 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: massmike

I saw her the other day ... in a WalMart ... stuffing a bunch of shit up her dress .... while the other gypsies started a fight-


6 posted on 01/21/2016 12:09:08 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: massmike

This is part of the reason that 43% of potential voters in Iowa identify as socialists.
They apparent
ly don’t know what Socialist means and call themselves Soialists because they participate in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media, and are therefore, Socialists.


7 posted on 01/21/2016 12:11:23 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: massmike

I used to teach at UNCG, known by the few conservatives there as UNC Gomorrah. The constant discrimination against and harassment of white males, Christians, and conservatives drove me to leave. Most universities are cesspools of leftist indoctrination. I am much happier since I walked away from academia.


8 posted on 01/21/2016 12:13:52 PM PST by FBRhawk (Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
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To: massmike

“Revital Zilonka”

Offspring of Rita Repulsa?

What rocks do these cockroaches crawl out from under?


9 posted on 01/21/2016 12:16:36 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: massmike

Why would anyone take the class unless they were already hopelessly far left? Please tell me it’s not a required course.


10 posted on 01/21/2016 12:22:33 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: longfellow

11 posted on 01/21/2016 12:23:21 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: massmike
Every Marxist teaching that steaming pile of excrement on every American campus needs a telephone pole shoved up their a$$. And that goes double for anyone that supports teaching Marxism other than a failed theory awash in the blood of it's victims in the Gulags and Reeducation camps.

Coming to a FEMA camp near you!!!

12 posted on 01/21/2016 12:27:18 PM PST by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
First line of the article: it's a required course to earn a K-12 teaching credential.

[In the proud FReeper tradition...]

13 posted on 01/21/2016 12:29:51 PM PST by FredZarguna (You did not see what I did there.)
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I read it twice and missed it!

Going to see the optometrist next week.


14 posted on 01/21/2016 12:31:31 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: FredZarguna

PS: In my defense, I tend to skip over the words that have the funny symbols in front of them, as “required” did in the post.


15 posted on 01/21/2016 12:32:30 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Just read ‘em as quotes. And only having a bit of fun with you...


16 posted on 01/21/2016 12:34:30 PM PST by FredZarguna (You did not see what I did there.)
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To: FredZarguna

Of course...


17 posted on 01/21/2016 12:35:15 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: longfellow

18 posted on 01/21/2016 12:36:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: massmike
I always hated it when professors required a paper to be of a specified length. If you could more concisely and definitively state what needed to be stated, that was discouraged.

It is why I went into science, where concise and definitive were considered virtues over rambling BS.

One professor even had a rubber stamp of a snorting bull which would be applied to vague filler in an essay answer on an exam.

19 posted on 01/21/2016 12:39:08 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: knarf

Common tactic.


20 posted on 01/21/2016 12:51:25 PM PST by prof.h.mandingo
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