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?
Posted on 06/15/2015 9:13:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington Post has published a guest article by a California teacher arguing that American high school students shouldn’t read Shakespeare because he’s a dead, white man.
Dana Dusbiber, who teaches English in Sacramento, says she avoids Hamlet and all the rest because her minority students shouldn’t be expected to study a “a long-dead, British guy” (Dusbiber herself is white). And while Shakespeare is widely regarded as the premier writer of the English language, able to timelessly portray themes central to the human experience, Dusbiber says he only is regarded that way because “some white people” ordained it and he can easily be replaced.
“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.”
To bolster her case for dumping the Bard, Dusbiber says that minority students, like those who dominate her own classroom, deserve to study their own cultures rather than being exposed to “Eurocentrism.” But at the same time, she takes the exact opposite position for whites, saying school should be a place for them to explore cultures other than their own.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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.....
A lefty by any other name would smell as foul.
But I’d hit it, a pretty piece of flesh—a touch, tomorrow you would find me a grave man ....
Pretty sure that could work. I know of a few people that I would like to volunteer for tests.
Fully immersed in the Kool-Aid.
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?
Urban Shakespeare !
Was that invented after the nuclear spearhead ?
She doesn’t want to teach Shakespeare because she knows most of her students cannot read any of it and cannot be made to understand the vocabulary even if read to them and explained but that doesn’t sound well for her or her school system or her union so she proffers a socially acceptable “reason.”
What’s the excuse for not teaching Booker T. Washington, teach?
Ah, yes. From that wonderful SNL sketch “Prose and Cons.”
Without looking where the gal is from I’m going to venture that she’s a 2nd or 3rd generation flower child from California at some point.
Just looked and she is from California. You can.’t mistake the after work toke for hours until your brain cells are dead look...: )
To paraphrase something I read somewhere once “She is an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Now I’ve got to go back an re-read Othello. Somewhere along the line I got some weird idea that he was Moor.
Maybe he’s trans-racial.
Luther Burbank High School, in Sacramento,——there is a staff directory with email. Have fun!
She doesn’t teach Shakespeare because he is difficult to read.
LOL!
food for thought
aha! I think you got it!
In other words, she's stupid.
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