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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Jun 19, 2005 08:49pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - St. Paul Pioneer Press |
| News Date | Monday, June 20, 2005 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Geez, I'm almost sorry I'll be on sabbatical next year.
That means I won't be in the classroom to see if I make it onto any right-wing hit parade of lefto/tolerance-of-homosexuality-promoting teachers who need monitoring.
State Sen. Michele Bachmann is in a crowded GOP primary field in her bid to go to Congress. She's worried Protecting Traditional Marriage isn't enough to propel her out of the pack. So she's jumped on the nationwide bandwagon that's looking for new culture-war targets among teachers. Her proposed "Academic Bill of Rights" died in committee this year, but young Republicans are still encouraging rightist high-school students to identify for political harassment teachers who dare to tell them that the Book of Genesis is not a very good geology text, or that being gay doesn't necessarily make you a pederast, or something else outrageous.
Believe it or not, when a teacher informs a student that he or she is wrong about something, either factually or logically, it's neither oppressive nor unfair. It's just education.
The so-called "Bill of Rights" that is wending its way around the nation's state governments is largely harmless boilerplate, with one or two mysterious phrases buried in the mush. Of course, these phrases are the whole point. "Intellectual diversity" is the key one. It has a nice ring to it, but as a legislative goal it's perverse. It means affirmative action for right-wing ideas and, perhaps, individuals. Conservatives aren't a disadvantaged group – they control most of the government under which we all live — and don't deserve affirmative action. |
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