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Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole'

Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:22 AM
A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on "white privilege" as well as "remedial re-education" for those who hold the "wrong" views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The demands appear to be similar to those promoted earlier at the University of Delaware. The Delaware university's office of residential life was caught requiring students to participant in a program that taught "all whites are racist." The developing Minnesota plan would require teachers to "embrace – and be prepared to teach our state's kids – the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic." She said the plan from the university's Teacher Education Redesign Initiative – a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained – "is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers' lack of 'cultural competence' contributes to the poor academic performance of the state's minority students." "The first step toward 'cultural competence,' says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize – and confess – their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China's Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.

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  • mitciv
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    15 years ago
    More than 7,000 undergraduates in the Delaware dorms were required to attend training sessions, floor meetings and one-on-one sessions with resident assistants who followed the rules described in internal documents as a "treatment." "A female freshman arrives for her mandatory one-on-one session in her male RA's dorm room. It is 8:00 p.m. Classes have been in session for about a week. The resident assistant hands her a questionnaire. He tells her it is 'a little questionnaire to help [you] and all the other residents relate to the curriculum.' He adds that they will 'go through every question together and discuss them,'" according to the report. When the student is asked, "When did you discover your sexual identity?" she responds, "That is none of your d*** business." Because she did not respond correctly, the residence assistant "becomes so appalled by her resistance that he writes up an incident report and reports her to his superiors," the report said.
  • georgmicrodong
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    15 years ago
    WRT the Delaware incident, I hope the student's parents are suing the hell out of the university. That's the only way to stop this crap.
  • Dudester
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    15 years ago
    This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them.
  • deogol
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    15 years ago
    So what if there is an "incident report." Be concerned only when they try to act to prevent something. Less concerning than a parking ticket if you ask me. The paper they are most interested in - yea - that green kind.
  • deogol
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    15 years ago
    Besides, I think these programs are making people more racist. They become more aware of how some classes of people are better protected by the system than they themselves are.
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