Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h3B0VoU16091; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5D27B220.26AD74C1.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:158] Re: from Kay Tee, Suggestions for handling bias X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1371 Lines: 11 Dear Kay Tee, I shouldn't have said a quagmire I should have said a powder keg. I thought about entering this aspect of the conversation this morning and decided to do so. In my mind and in many people's minds, not just Jews, but certainly Jews, the Holocaust and the existence of Israel are linked, so if you talk about the Holocaust you talk about Israel. That's a teaching reality that has to be handled in the classroom, often with Moslems these days. Where are you going to start history? Where are you going to start adding up the balance sheet? I have read the history of that area of our world, I have even studied it and taught part of it. That's why I came down as I did, in the end, with a wish to create a civil society that is able to include and acknowledge the bad things and the good things about humankind. In a political discussion like this, and when we talk teaching we are talking politics and power, I think we have to come down to mutual respect within the classroom for the values of safety, home and family, corny as those sound. It seems to me these values translate nicely into the very concrete practices and policies that the YES! progam initiated and is carrying out. The economy of our whole country, not just the south, was built on the atrocity of slavery. I don't see that we have acknowleged this yet, nationally. Andrea
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