My Daughter, the Blogger-exposed teacher for mistreating her to the whole cyberworld

FrontPageMagazine.com | February 25, 2004 | Catherine Seipp

[zook]

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[PBRSTREETGANG]

...and the day of her Instalanche she alone brought in 1/3 of all Journalspace hits.

What is the appropriate gift for a 14-year-old girl's "day of Instalanche"?

[sneakers]

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[Chad Fairbanks]

A package of Oreos ;0)

[Born Conservative]

the Internet really has folded certain corners of the planet into the small town of Blogville, Planet Earth; conversely, the traditonally small, closed world of high school can no longer be so small and closed - not when any kid can find countless informed opinions that differ from what the teacher thinks with just a few mouse clicks.

As I've said before; the internet is a conservative's best friend...

[TSgt]

"In seventh grade, I had a nice but airheaded history teacher who decided to teach us less than a month of Roman Empire history and more than three months of African and Islamic History."

Brings back memories of my High School years. My AP Engrish teacher had us reading Maya Angelou, Bigger, Why the Caged Bird Sings and so on until I thought only black authors existed.

So much for Macbeth, Grapes of Wrath, etc.,etc..

[ladylib]

Put that un-pc failing paper up on the web and let others judge its merits.

I love it.

[mhking]

[OldBlondBabe]

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[JimRed]

Thankfully, the next year, she went abroad to 'save Tibet.'"

Tranlation: to help the Maoist rebels take over.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I remember being in 9th grade - my Spanish class. The teacher passed out the bookcovers for our books. The bookcovers were supplied by the local army recruiters, and so they had a camo pattern on them.

She immediately told the class that she did not want to see the camo pattern, but rather we should have the blank side facing outward instead because she was "offended" by the "militaristic" bookcovers...

Of course, being a punk kid I had to do the exact opposite of what she wanted, and the following day when I showed up in class she came to my desk, angrily ripped the cover off, and sent me to the office for "insubordination".

In-school suspension for that one. Followed by many in-school suspension days during the remainder of the year for wearing such things as field jackets, t-shirts that read "Let me win your hearts and minds, or I'll burn your damn huts down" and "Hey! I just stepped in some Shiite!" and "Hippies Suck"...

Ahhhh high school. What a fun time, full of great memories... ;0)

[eno_]

My daughter already says "Yeah, another didactic Newberry Award winning piece of white guilt." when I ask her what book she was assigned to read at school.

[ladylib]

The kids get it. There is hope.

[CatoRenasci]

And when I was in high school in the early 1960s, we were stuck with the likes of Silas Marner... which set in me a prejudice against female novelists that took years to shake.

Then, sadly, other than in history where liberalism reigned, the political correctness was conservative. As a sophomore, I had an English teacher who downgraded any work she found inconsistent with her own very fundamentalist religious position. I could understand her not wanting us to read Lawrence Ferlinghetti's quasi-erotic Beat poetry, e.g. The Coney Island of the Mind, which was, however, in my view rather tame and harmless, but, with her, even Theodore Dreiser and H.L. Mencken were taboo. At any rate, I became annoyed when she gave me a "C" on an essay I thought was good, but took a decidedly Menckensian line. So, I took it to the local state college where I knew the head of the English department. He circulated the paper to the department as a college paper, and the comments all came back positive, with no less than an "A-" On my next essary for the old bat, I wrote a purposely bad essay which took positions I knew she would like. Of course, she gave me an "A", while the state college English department thought it, at best, a "D-" effort. I then dropped copies of both papers with the college professors' comments on her desk, and on the principal's.

Fun was had by all.

[happygrl]

the traditonally small, closed world of high school can no longer be so small and closed - not when any kid can find countless informed opinions that differ from what the teacher thinks with just a few mouse clicks.

This can be difficult for schools, which I suspect often are entrenched in conventional leftist wisdom simply because they are institutions

What's the antidote to Bad Free Speech ?

More Free Speech.

[netmilsmom]

>>"Let me win your hearts and minds, or I'll burn your damn huts down" and "Hey! I just stepped in some Shiite!" and "Hippies Suck"... <<

LOL! And she thought the camo cover would offend her!

[The Enlightener]

When I was in middle school(8th grade), my science teacher taught from a textbook that turned out to be primarily about how the world was going to fill up with trash, and how we should all recycle. One day I asked an embarrassing question(embarrassing to him, obviously): if recycling was such a good idea why don't companies mine old trash dumps for valuable materials to recycle? The next thing you know I was put in the back of the class next to the door, all by myself.

I spent the rest of that year asking questions like that of the teacher and pretty much making him look like a fool when he had no answer or his answer contradicted the book. I had no idea at the time I was a conservative; I was just taking the information given to me and trying to make sense out of it by asking questions. I ended up getting a B in the class. I had aced every test by putting down the answers I knew he wanted, so when I asked why I got a B, he said I lost points due to lack of class participation in discussions! LOL. Apparently only politically correct responses counted towards those points.

[TheBigB]

My own similar story doesn;t have to do with any type of political stuff; but back in 9th grade my history teacher, Mr. Vinson, was a great guy. But it was history; I mean, all I had to do was read the book and aced every test. 90% of my time in class was spent turned around talking to my friend Verlin. When our report cards came out, I had an A+ and the comment, "Does not pay attention." I tried to convince my parents why the contradiction. :)