Burbank High School teacher’s Shakespeare aversion draws national attention

Sacramento Bee ^ | June 18, 2015 | Ben Egel

[artichokegrower]

Most high school English teachers adore William Shakespeare’s works. Dana Dusbiber does not.

In an essay published this month on a Washington Post education blog, the Luther Burbank High School teacher explained she does not want to teach Shakespeare’s works despite his esteemed place in American education because his perspective does not speak well to her ethnically diverse students.

[artichokegrower]

“What I worry about is that as long as we continue to cling to ONE (white) MAN’S view of life as he lived it so long ago, we (perhaps unwittingly) promote the notion that other cultural perspectives are less important,”

While your are at it you could also ignore "ONE (white) MAN’S view" on physics and toss out that whole Newtonian concept on things such as gravity. Better get rid of your books altogether because they use the process created by that other white man Gutenberg. Maybe they should sit in the dark and not use Edison's,that other white guy's, invention of the incandescent light. Damn white guys.

[Michael.SF.]

[odawg]

You are using logic, which is useless for these people. If she had the reasoning ability of a fifth grader, she would not espouse what she does.

[Red Badger]

Perhaps she should switch to Alexandre Dumas, instead................

[max americana]

I travel to the Philippines twice a year and one local told me the subjects for her daughter’s high school class. It also included Literature, especially Shakespeare’s works. Now do these students look at subjects based on one’s race? WS’s works transcends race and these stupid liberal white guilt-ridden imbeciles reach the level of stupidity that is bottomless.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

[Louis Foxwell]

Obviously she refuses to teach Shakespeare because it is too dense for her. Lots of people have this problem.

[MarDav]

You can’t not teach Hamlet...It’s a must

[ChildOfThe60s]

This calls for psychotropic medication. It should be automatically dispensed in the water fountain of the teacher’s lounge.

[Fiji Hill]

She has adjusted her teaching style to show nonwhite students successful authors with skin colors similar to theirs. Instead of Shakespeare, Dusbiber assigns texts by authors such as Isabel Allende, Sharon Draper, Francisco Jimenez and Gary Soto.

How does she know what Shakespeare looked like? There were no images made of him or descriptions of him written during his lifetime.

On the other hand, Isabel Allende is white.

[Fiji Hill]

[lrdg]

My students had the dame problem with algebra.

Seems to me she is trying to keep ignorant students ignorant.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Marxist infiltration of our universities is now two generations plus and counting. Every opinion-making profession’s graduate school brainwashes its students with this stupid, anti-White-male, anti-Christian, anti-intellectual Western catachism. Race-mongering, sexual deviancy, and the expansion and worship of the state uber alles, are the topics acceptable

[Nevadan]

Back in 1984 E.D. Hirsch wrote a book called “Cultural Literacy “. It is about all the things one needs to know as an educated person. Of course, the PC crowd hates the idea because there are way too many dead white guys who wrote works important to Western Civilization.

[aquila48]

Since she herself is white then she shouldn’t be teaching mexican or black kids according to her standard.

[goldi]

A friend of the family is from Ghana. Apparently, he had a classical education and wants his daughter to start reading the classics.

[Mariner]

Folks, you have to remember this is an English teacher at Burbank HS in Sacramento.

Her IQ is CERTAIN to not exceed 85.

[Sivad]

“Since she herself is white........”

Yah, if the teacher followed her own logic she
would sit down, STFU, and resign her position
to be replaced by a true representative of the
diverse students.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Shakespeare does sound better in the original Klingon.

[skimbell]

Hamlet’s up there, but over the years I’ve found that I enjoy King Lear more with each reading.