[thechat] Is this proper education?

[Madhu Menon]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/education/02REGE.html

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In a feat of literary sleuth work, Ms. Heifetz, the mother of a high school
senior and a weaver from Brooklyn, inspected 10 high school English exams
from the past three years and discovered that the vast majority of the
passages — drawn from the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anton Chekhov and
William Maxwell, among others — had been sanitized of virtually any
reference to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, nudity, alcohol, even the
mildest profanity and just about anything that might offend someone for
some reason. Students had to write essays and answer questions based on
these doctored versions — versions that were clearly marked as the work of
the widely known authors.

</quote>

Good to know that the children's education is in good hands, eh?

Regards,

Madhu

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