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 h3U5hAU22695; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:43:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:43:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <42725327.691DDB85.0AB94E44@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: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:284] Re: I hope my critics will read this 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: 2290 Lines: 30 Another take on reading Eileen's message, Did she meant disrespect to GWB or to LD individuals, or both, or neither? I believe that Chris Hitchens has argued that GWB may be learning disabled. This of course does not mean dumb, only that he does not possess the skills to succeed in traditional academic environments w/o some accomodation. Hitchens based his claim on the fact that apparently GWB did not do well in college, needs help reading dense documents and has difficulty with academic tasks. Yet, GWB is not dumb. However, within contexts that favors academics over "street smarts", he may have a disadvantage. On the other hand, in a non-academic environment, he'll do fine. We can furhter extrapolate that the presidency is not a very academic environment. Assuming that Hitchen's argument is true, then, Eileen could have been accurate/literal in referring to GWB as a moron, and, possibly, she had this revelation from some metaphysical source. Again, it all goes to the idea that literacy is not just about decoding and chunking phonemes, but about exploring the myrad of possible interpretations. Andres In a message dated 4/29/2003 3:45:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, GPLC@aol.com writes: >t’s a lesson to us all. In our current environment, with its overheated yet underwrought rhetoric, it’s probably better to stick to plain language (what we really mean to say) and let our politicians provide their own particular brand of self-satirization. We can’t improve on it. > >That said, Eileen’s message, as I read it (in context, of course), “My gut instinct (my faith), as well as the evidence of his policy decisions, leads me to believe that this president is singularly lacking in insight into the needs of educationally disadvantaged learners and those that teach them,” seems pretty uncontroversial and pretty much in keeping with many of the opinions that I’ve seen posted to this list. > >I think the word “moron” in popular language has long since ceased to refer to developmentally disabled people and become a way to refer to smartish people with stubbornly wrong-headed opinions (wrong-headed from a certain point of view, of course). >People like most of us some of the time. > > >Karen Mundie > -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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