Tayari's Blog: Forget The Homework-Eating Dog

Posted by TayariJones on February 25, 2006 07:08 PM
Filed under Current Events

Arizona Senate’s Committee on Higher Education has voted to let university and community-college students opt out of reading assignments that they find "offensive."

Okay, can you imagine the practical applications of this?

Me: "Excuse me Little Johnny.. Where is your homework?"
Johnny: "It offended me, so I didn't do it."
Me: Well, that's completely legal. Let me write a separate syllabus just for you. I wouldn't want you to accidently get exposed to anything new. Please forgive me!

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Comment #1, by Michael Fischer [TypeKey Profile Page]

I almost applied for a Lecturer position at ASU. Thank God I didn't.

You're right: this is a disaster waiting to happen, especially for us English teachers. A student waiting to get out of reading could deem almost any serious literary work "offensive,” as literary works tend not to reduce serious issues to vanilla, bumper sticker platitudes.

February 25, 2006 09:23 PM

Comment #2, by Michael Fischer [TypeKey Profile Page]

*wanting

February 25, 2006 09:32 PM

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