It's a little bit disturbing, in a forum like this, to see the word "political" used in the usual talk-radio sense of "anything I don't like and that's too complicated for me to figure out and that comes from a left-wing perspective." ALL public school curriculum has a "political bias." Beyond that, the way in which the schools are run also expresses a political bias. That bias is pro-capitalist, anti-critical thinking and anti-freedom. In the Minneapolis Public Schools, of which I am a 1993 graduate, there is an explicit bias in favor of a very politically-determined view of what constitutes Western culture. In Music, English Literature, Social Studies, Visual Art and related classes, the only perspectives offered are those which reinforce the view that Western high culture is the end to which everyone in the world should aspire. Students are generally not given an opportunity (except occasionally in the classrooms of the few remaining progressive teachers) to learn about anything outside of those very rigid boundaries. Those who find a "peace curriculum" so horrifying should take heart: no veneer of creeping leftism is going to obscure the bulk of right-wing ideology that dominates thinking in the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Niels Strandskov Stevens Square-Loring Heights __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
