[thechat] Is this proper education?

[Martin Burns]

On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 06:35  am, Madhu Menon wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/education/02REGE.html
>
> <quote>
>
> 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?

Possibly related - a good friend has been trying to get a paper on
Evelyn Waugh published in the US for a *long* time. But because it
refers to Waugh's opinion that the Palestinians are on balance the
victims/good guys (relative to Israel), no dice.

Cheers
Martin
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