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 h3THdYU05246; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:39:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:39:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <7E8A4546.196BCCB8.0A349A3F@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:266] Re: educator's roles in politics and advocacy 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: 1154 Lines: 15 Dear Eileen, I almost don't believe I am responding to your post. I was following you fine until your last sentence. It seems to me your political and religious views completely undercut your advocacy stance and your stance as an educator! First, "moron." It seems to me unacceptable for an educator to use this within such a post as it is derogatory slang. "Moron" is a word we're trying to get rid of in the wider culture,except in very informal speech, and here in MA where funds for residential programs for the retarded are being slashed... One educator on this list told me, when I asked, that the only people he couldn't teach were those with no insight, what we might call "mentally retarded." I don't even want to use your word on this list!!! As to invoking the diety---some on this list are beleivers and others not, I expect. But professinally it seems useful, and something we have signed on for, to accept a questionning stance in general. I don't really see "god" as part of the discussion. I expect others may disagree on these points, maybe, maybe not, but given who we are or who we profess to be, I am stunned. Andrea
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