Woke teachers want Shakespeare
cut from curriculum: 'This
is about White supremacy'
Washington Times,
by
James Varney
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/15/2021 3:59:26 PM
The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright comes under assault from teachers who fault his un-woke attitudes regarding race, sexuality, gender and class. For the new breed of teachers, William Shakespeare is seen less as an icon of literature and more as a tool of imperial oppression, an author who should be dissected in class or banished from the curriculum entirely.(Snip) Elizabeth Nelson, who teaches English at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, told School Library Journal she gives her students Marxist theory when reading Shakespeare’s tragedy “Coriolanus” about the Roman leader.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/15/2021 4:07:11 PM (No. 697179)
But...But, Shakespear identified as BLACK...Prove he didn't!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 2/15/2021 4:08:29 PM (No. 697180)
I sometimes wonder if these Lefty teachers have actually studied Marx or if everything they know is based on the phrase from a t-shirt to meme.
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I hope the students also learn to ask "hot or mild sauce" and to upsell by asking "you want fries with dat?", as those will be the only jobs this kind of education will prepare them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 2/15/2021 4:12:10 PM (No. 697186)
When she says the Bard's writings are heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/15/2021 4:12:49 PM (No. 697187)
We have a bunch of College students who cannot even spell correctly, write incorrect grammar and do dis service to English language
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 2/15/2021 4:22:38 PM (No. 697194)
Teachers proving that a college degree does not equal intelligence.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Moritz55 2/15/2021 4:36:44 PM (No. 697198)
This is just like a scene out of Brave New World!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/15/2021 4:41:55 PM (No. 697199)
I'm convinced that leftists want to go back to the days of the cave man; they are a regressive lot. But we're supposed to believe these robbers and non-creators are forward thinking progressives.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/15/2021 4:46:05 PM (No. 697202)
Yeah, what the hell.....he’s the greatest writer in the history of the English language, and you’re an English teacher, but gosh, he was a white supremacist and a white guy.
Morons, all of them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mathman 2/15/2021 4:50:44 PM (No. 697205)
And who, pray tell, has the most entries in Bartlett's Quotations? Old Bill.
And who, pray tell, did the most to give English the flexibility to express so much in print? Old Bill. And who managed to entertain while educating at the same time? 39 plays. Reading Churchill may give you the facts about Henry IV, but who are you going to remember? Old Bill. And who started out with 154 sonnets, of amazing expressiveness and nuance? Try to write a sonnet. It is not easy. Oh, by the way. Make the rhyme scheme transparent. Make the scansion sensible. And do this in 14 lines.
Simple. Go ahead.
Compare English Before Bill and English After Bill. I double dog dare ya.
What other dramatist gave us West Side Story?
Why don't we go back to grunts and howls and start over again?
Invent a new alphabet, and a new vocabulary. Then persuade folk around the world to use your new language.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 2/15/2021 4:51:22 PM (No. 697206)
These woke, cancel culture twits are to stupid to understand Shakespeare so they don't want anybody to get smarter than they are so the "cancel" it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jimboscott 2/15/2021 4:57:06 PM (No. 697209)
This is a war on excellence. 100%. We cannot have SOME who excel at anything without it being due to some privilege or another.
Fact is, Western Europeans have done more to advance culture and innovation than any other racial group in modern history.
Fact.
That is NOT to say that other races and cultures are morally inferior. Morals a personal matter. Some people ARE morally inferior but that distinction can only be rightly made on a personal basis. So, while some race might fall very short in what they have contributed to mathematics or physics, that is not to say individual members of that race are incapable of wonderful acts of kindness NOR does it mean that individuals of that race cannot achieve great things in science in innovation. It mostly means that their culture did not place a premium on such things.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jean123 2/15/2021 4:58:40 PM (No. 697211)
Lord what fools these mortals be!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
franq 2/15/2021 5:00:16 PM (No. 697213)
All because Andrea Mitchell got egg on her face.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TJ54 2/15/2021 5:19:30 PM (No. 697226)
This will generate a demand for alternate schools
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 2/15/2021 5:30:13 PM (No. 697235)
"Elizabeth Nelson, who teaches English at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul"
another worthless teecher at a worthless charter skool
i wonder if she lives in the area this skool is at..
i wouldn't leave my car running there..
or anywhere else in the Twin Cities either..
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jinx 2/15/2021 5:42:26 PM (No. 697247)
The NEA is holding up schools in order to get the new textbooks on Critical Race Theory(Marxist) published and delivered. They will not include any classical literature because it is not" woke". When someone says, "Et tu Brute?" the woke generation won't have a clue as to what they mean. How about calling someone a Scrooge or a Miss Havisham or a star crossed lover. The NEA is working overtime to change our culture and to turn our Republic into a Communist nation. The teachers are not completely to blame; it is the Union that calls the shots.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Digiconver 2/15/2021 5:58:49 PM (No. 697258)
Anyway teaching Shakespere is hard. You gotta read all those books and plays and stuff.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/15/2021 6:16:09 PM (No. 697272)
Problem for the stupid black movement is they can't point to a single "scholar" from Africa. Africans never developed a written language and wouldn't have until the Colonials shown up to teach them one. African culture is heathenistic and animistic.
Now, sit down, study your Shakespeare, and SHUT UP.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/15/2021 6:30:15 PM (No. 697286)
It's only right. Gotta make room for that extensive tradition of great literature from deepest, darkest Africa.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DARling 2/15/2021 6:40:50 PM (No. 697295)
Any black person who can spew gibberish with a loud, booming voice becomes an icon. If they spew their own written gibberish, they are added to the list of scholars whose work must be taught in our schools.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/15/2021 6:49:40 PM (No. 697305)
It is bad enough that public schools pull this crap, but PRIVATE schools.........? Were I a parent I'd get my kid out pronto. Or is that word no longer legitimate?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/15/2021 6:51:08 PM (No. 697308)
And I think poster #2 is right on the money........the "teachers" and others I have met who posit these ideas really are clueless and so much like the immature college students breaking into the dean's office....it is all about them!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/15/2021 7:40:30 PM (No. 697337)
They tried for a while to promote The Bard as a homosexual, but the more pressing objective is to remove everything good from the public eye. No good literature, art, film, music, all common trash, nothing decent. Soon enough people lose the ability to discern good from bad, and this is how you destroy a nation.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/15/2021 7:53:58 PM (No. 697345)
That is probably because none of them ever read Tales From the Decameron or The Canterbury Tales. Believe it or not, our high school had a female teacher for the senior girls and a male teacher for the senior boys; it was the last class of the day that semester. Students did NOT cut that class. Ever.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
padiva 2/15/2021 8:29:10 PM (No. 697363)
Beware of the Ides of March.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 2/15/2021 8:34:07 PM (No. 697366)
These teachers need their certifications revoke, if they are smart enough to have,
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ironchefw 2/15/2021 9:42:48 PM (No. 697397)
Study rap lyrics then.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/15/2021 9:43:31 PM (No. 697398)
Problem is there is very little black/LGBTQ literature out there, and much of it is mediocre. The west, like it or not, has given the world a treasure trove of classic literature for millennia. The left is careening more and more into Eloi territory.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
kono 2/15/2021 10:42:35 PM (No. 697433)
After all those students who struggled with English Lit class and vowed revenge... How do they feel now that the Cancel Culture has taken aim at their bane? That Elizabeth Nelson idiot ought to be shipped straight to Caracas, Beijing, or Havana. Didn't she ever read Animal Farm?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
mifla 2/16/2021 4:20:19 AM (No. 697544)
Shakespeare wants woke teachers cut from the curriculum.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
BillW. 2/16/2021 5:43:46 AM (No. 697570)
While they're at it, halt the sale of George Orwell, too.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/16/2021 6:36:08 AM (No. 697587)
I suspect that "woke teachers" failed the English classes in which Shakespeare was taught, if they even took them.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/16/2021 10:46:33 PM (No. 698635)
They should teach Today's Urban Language, with emphasis on 'songs' such as Cardi-B's 'WAP'.
Look up the lyrics if you want to get an 'education'..... they can't be posted here.
(Warning.....have some Eye Bleach handy!)
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