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Posted on 11/25/2005 1:29:52 PM PST by sentz
BENNINGTON, Vermont (AP) -- A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.
Bret Chenkin, a social studies and English teacher at Mount Anthony Union High School, said he gave the quiz to his students several months ago. The quiz asked students to pick the proper words to complete sentences.
One example: "I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes." "Coherent" is the right answer.
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Bennington. Figures.
I guess he went to highschool in Vt....
I checked your link. What a sicko. But at least we have his email address.
BTW, why do thry want to know who complained? It's wrong. It doesn't matter who complained.
I was wondering about that, too. They want to talk to the student who complained and any other kids who may be offended. And they'll talk to the teacher as an afterthought.
the point is not that he is a liberal, but that he USED tests/measurements to "evaluate" a student's political philosophy. that is what is WRONG.
This idiot is unqaulified to teach English. The question is incredibly wordy and he used the incorrect word "insuring" versus the correct word, "ensuring".
Fire his butt and blackball him from the so-called profession.
Here's why I never got hired at any of the schools in California when I interviewed down there. Most schools had one question in their standard interviewing package about "effecting change" in society through the classroom.
I had a standard reply. I told the interviewers that changing the world "one child at a time" was an insult to parents, since it told them that the school, not the family, knew what was best for the child; changing the world "one child at a time" insulted the culture of the community, since it implied that the teacher knew more than the people who paid his or her salary; and, finally, I already had a full plate teaching students how to read, write, and learn their times tables without spending my time dabbling in social engineering. I work FOR the people who pay for my salary with their taxes, not AGAINST those people.
Hey, I was finally hired somewhere anyway - not in California, though.
This teacher in Vermont, however, wants to make the world a better place, starting with his classroom. As a result, his approach is elitist and insulting. Imagine how narrow you'd have to be to ignore the fact that some of those same students must be Republicans and like Bush - and how uncaring. This guy, no doubt, argued that he's just making a joke, when he's really using sarcasm and insult to make a political point.
Final sad insight: in some teaching circles, he'll get praise for this.
The liberal arts education has become so outmoded that they can't tell the difference between facts and opinions -- and teach opinions as facts. That's also true of the "professional" curricula of journalism, education, social work, political science, etc.
They need to make modern information processing methodologies as the core of their disciplines -- rather than passing on medieval academic traditions of simply accumulating old knowledge without updating and supplanting it. They have to evolve the understanding instead of just accumulating the good and bad as though they are equally valuable and the people in the field cannot discriminate any difference.
They can't tell good from bad. Their education disables that ability. People like that should not be teaching anybody anything.
No doubt really gross. I wonder if his school knows?
Lol
I'd love to see a quiz of reporters asking who is "extreme right" and "extreme left" (although I'm guessing that no one would be in the extreme left category)
Might not be the same dude... check this one out (*snicker*)
“My son Bret (now 34) did everything early. He walked at 11 months but never talked. Just pointed and grunted,” Chenkin says. “When Louis died in 1971, I kept watching all the television shows about him, playing his records and talking about him. One day we were in Manhattan and looking at all the street vendors, and one had a display of famous figures. All of a sudden, my 2-year-old points down and says, ‘Louis Armstrong!' And those were his very first words,” Chenkin laughs.
http://www.parentsknow.com/articles/article.php?id=1063730716
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/search/ci_3248055
One said, "It is frightening the way the extreme Right has (balled, arrogated) aspects of the (U.S.) Constitution and warped them for their own agenda."
Another said, "I wish (President George W.) Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes."
And the last question said, "The governor (of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger,) should have been (excoriated, coherent) by the press for calling Democrats 'girlie-men' but instead was invited to speak at the Republican convention; it only goes to show what kind of people they are."
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