Jun 02 2006
Educate The Education Bureaucrats
My mother was a teacher and principal principle, and many of my wife’s aunts are teachers and assistant principals principles – so this is not aimed at those wonderful people who teach our children. But someone needs to take the policy makers to task and educate them on (a) the use of a dictionary and (b) why education is not an act of defining social norms and laws. Betsy’s Page has discovered why these truths are self evident:
The Seattle Public Schools just bought themselves a heap of controversy by attempting to define racism. Their definition is laughably racist itself.
The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians), by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (Whites). The subordination is supported by the actions of individuals, cultural norms and values, and the institutional structures and practices of society.”
Only whites are racist.
There’s more. And it gets worse.
[Spelling corrections by ForEnforcement – thanks!]
Puhleeze don’t take this personal, I just have to point it out, it’s funny sort of.
“My mother was a teacher and principle, and many of my wife’s aunts are teachers and assistant principles – so this is not aimed at those wonderful people who teach our children. But someone needs to take the policy makers to task and educate them on (a) the use of a dictionary ”
Check the dictionary on how you spell the word for the head administrator in a school. hint: it’s not “principle”
AJ just go ahead and delete my comment, I’m already sorry I made it, now I will be held to that standard I was putting on you and it’s not worth it. I liked the article.
FE
FE,
I am a typo maniac! It doesn’t bother me! I’ll leave it there to prove this point again in the future (unless you really, really want me to take it down)
AJStrata
Reading your corrected copy, all I could picture was Mrs. Ford, my elementary school principal on her classroom visits, telling all of us eager little learners that, “Just remember, your Principal is your PAL.”
Thanks for a giggle, and a warm memory.