UTMC

"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,"

So...where's he wrong? The shrub is a stammering dolt.

I agree with this teacher's right to do this; hell, I've done similiar, but the reason you haven't seen my name in the press for this is because I balance my criticisms in class (well, I try to). For every shrub remark he needed to have a "Clinton" or a "Gore" or a "Nader" sentence to cover his ass.

We educators by and large are liberals, that's usually the result of being taught to look at the world around you and ask questions (actually the government really taught me this one) instead of swallowing party rhetoric like pablum. Strange though, isn't it, that in a world that's supposedly filled with "Liberal agenda's" like the schools, the press, television that we keep breeding conservatives. Perhaps the schools are doing their jobs after all and the conservatives are now the ones who need to toughen the fuck up.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article ... 2809990002

Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union Superintendent Wesley Knapp said he would not want his children subjected to such teaching.

"It's absolutely unacceptable," he said. "They (teachers) don't have a license to hold forth on a particular standpoint."

Obviously, he's never met the Superintendent of Schools for the state of Kansas.

I wonder what the reaction would be if he tounge and cheek attacked Cindy Sheehan?

The whole thing is silly. Making tests like this doesn't further their English edjucation but only distracts from it. Things like this should be confined to the proper course.

UVF02052 wrote:I wonder what the reaction would be if he tounge and cheek attacked Cindy Sheehan?

He would have gotten a medal of freedom.

UVF02052 wrote:... edjucation ...

I hope that was on purpose.

I don't think it's a distraction as much as it is a teacher trying to bring real-world signifigance to an assignment. Sometimes humor is the best approach to use since it captures attention and aids in retention.

I always appreciated teachers inserting their own opinions tongue-in-cheek as long as they weren't trying to convert anyone. It makes them seem like real people instead of robots.

charlie