Posted on 10/11/2022 2:00:02 PM PDT by gitmo
An academic at a teacher training college has claimed efforts to improve vocabulary in schools are ‘racist, classist and ableist’.
Ian Cushing, lecturer in English and Education at Edge Hill University, believes tackling the ‘word gap’ – the difference between the language range of typical middle class and working class or disabled youngsters – has ‘colonial’ roots.
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Too many pinkos and perverts in the so-called “education” profession.
Close the public schools.
They will not even teach them words like “plenipotentiary” and “instrument?”
I mean really, the Dems want those abortions for stem cells and organ transplants to keep all those geriatric lefties going!
Nothing has changed on the Dem plantation since 1864.
On, now they’re just making stuff up.
Should have been fired immediately.
The roots are medieval, or older.
Its a very ancient thing, the idea of teaching rhetoric to poor boys - rhetoric was a very broad subject back then.
The most famous case probably was the Greek slave and stoic philosopher Epictetus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
The Discourses
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0237&redirect=true
The Enchiridion
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45109
Reading and writing used to be the business of scribes and priests.
The peasants could do neither of those.
We are entering an age of neo-feudalism where everyone is bound to a master.
Easy correction, don’t use the letter “B” behind each words that will improve the vocabulary of most of the students needing help. Example change we’b, I’b, etc. somewhere repeating colonial rulers hundreds of years ago but still persist. Also stop listening to RAP music, thanks all
My sister taught school. Most of her students were black. There were some students who worked hard and wanted to learn, but most were discipline problems.
The children who wanted to learn were grateful for everything she gave them.
"Don't you like teaching the children who want to learn?" I once asked her.
"Oh of course!" she replied. "The problem is that I have to spend most of my time with the children who are discipline problems."
When she corrected them and tried to teach them, the regular response was, "You racist!"
For example, one day she said to the class, "Is it correct to say, 'He gave the book to Mary and me,' or 'He gave the book to Mary and I'?"
When she explained that "Mary and I" was incorrect, some of the children became angry and said, "You racist! My Mama says, 'You and I.' I'm gone tell my Mama you racist!"
Not only did she have to tangle with children who were difficult like that and were discipline problems, but some of the parents were just as difficult.
To her profound regret, she had a very hard time giving the interested students what they needed and wanted.
My father was a child of the Great Depression. Born in 1922 in rural SW Georgia, he plowed mules to make a family living under false pretense by his no-good, alcoholic father that he would personally benefit from the crops he made. His dad, my grandfather, whom I never met, always snookered him out of his cut. Gave Dad a huge chip on his shoulder that caused him to pursue skills and limited education that allowed him to rise above his humble beginnings. He also demanded that his two sons be educated and refrain from heavy alcohol consumption.
He always posed this choice to us when talking about getting an education: You choose with your education whether your family can eat steak when they want to, or whether they will have to eat beans.
Consequently, I always grew up with a fear of not having a job or not having enough to eat. I have been blessed with enough all my life and always appreciated the guidance when I got old enough to understand. We would be much better off if a lot of people in our country had the benefit of what I heard. Too many are content with their food stamps.
BigLeft won’t be happy till they’re all reduced to smacking themselves on the forehead while grunting and pointing at what they want...
Keep the Harfoots savages that no one can like.
I’m still waiting for someone to say “psyph”. The left is mental.
Since continuing the dumbing down of American citizens consumes left wingnuts
infested full time with Anti-Americanism Syndrome.
My wife was an English teacher in a small town. She got in trouble because the school board kids weren’t getting A’s and some of the black kids were.
I always helped her look over their essays. She was grading according to their work.
Some of the students who had never had good grades told me she was the only teacher who ever was fair.
How can you be "working class" when you don't work?
They always said the safest place to hide your money was in their work boots.
Which colonists? Spanish? Italian? German? Dutch? English? Irish? The ones who crossed the Bering Strait? The ones who came up from the Yucatan? Will they be teaching Yiddish? Gaelic? Flemish?
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Being well spoken and articulate is now racist.
I guess they’re all evil.
I guess that’s why Fetterwoman eats vegetables from a veggie tray and does not eat crutite.
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