"One of the primary concerns of educators teaching the history of the
Graphic material should be used judiciously and only to the extent necessary to achieve the objective of the lesson ...."
WM: I don't know who is being quoted here, but I completely disagree with the sentiment. What does "judiciously and only to the extent necessary to achieve the objective of the lesson" mean? Judicious to whom? The individual teacher? The Bd. of Ed? The population in general? The student?
Children and adults see many things, none of which can be truly controlled by schools or anyone else for that matter. It drove me crazy, as a student, from the time I was quite small, to have teachers and librarians trying to govern what I could see and read--despite the fact that my parents gave permission to both school and library that I be allowed to read anything I liked and look at picture books I chose myself.
My parents were poor as church mice, as were most of my known relatives. We relied entirely on public libraries and the school for reading material, except for the daily newspaper.
We relied on the art museum for pictures. We relied on the TV for baseball.
"... The assumption that all students will seek to understand human behavior after being exposed to horrible images is fallacious. Some students may be so appalled by images of brutality and mass murder that they are discouraged from studying the subject further."WM: It was ever thus. Some people, on hearing and seeing, will create mythology by declaring loudly and often that the pictures, the stories, the written accounts are all a conspiracy and a lie. Some of those folks, currently, deny that the Holocaust happened. Others, being less agressive, join the Flat Earth Society.
None of this quote is germaine to why Mike Opat censored a history exhibit. His own justification was, in my mind, way lame. For whatever reason, Opat, who works in that building, didn't want to look at that picture every weekday, so he used his bigger hammer so that he wouldn't have to. Neither can we look at it. Who died and left him in charge of what the population can see?
WizardMarks, Central
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