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HunterORL23
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 Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: Teaching Political Topics |
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What do you guys do when your textbook wants you to teach something that is a topic that you strictly disagree with (for example man causing global warming). Not only is this something I do not want to teach my students but it is something I feel like writing the publisher an e-mail about. There is no reason why this topic should be in a public school middle school 2nd grade English text book. Why do these publishers want to inflict fear on these kids and force them to conform to their biased opinions.
Makes me sick! |
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tomstar86
Joined: 09 May 2009
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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It's not inflicting fear, it's allowing for discussion of a controversial topic. It'll allow for debate among the students, which isn't something you should discourage, no matter what your own personal feelings on a topic may be.
You don't have to say that you agree with the topic. The kids won't necessarily agree, either, so you're not teaching "this is fact". You're teaching them debating skills in English, and hopefully any necessary vocabulary and grammar from the article.
Tom
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decolyon
Joined: 24 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:30 am Post subject: |
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You make me sick Hunter.
You fly across the Pacific on a plane. You listen to your iPod. You use a computer and make this post on the internet... yet you deny the very same science that makes those things happen.
Let me guess... you also don't believe in evolution, the President is a socialist, the whole entire universe in just 6,000 years old? |
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