“Educators” get help from Disney in dumbing down students
Maryland’s top educator encouraged teachers
Thursday to use comic books to inspire students to read.
No ignoranus left behind
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck could become regulars in elementary and middle school classrooms after Maryland’s top educator encouraged teachers Thursday to use comic books to inspire students to read.
The kids loved it, educators said.
Critics, though, see a worrisome trend in a generation raised on the restless pace of television, movies and video games.
“I don’t think that is where I want my 9- or 10-year-old child spending their time in school,” said Timothy Shanahan, president of the International Reading Association. “It might be a choice of reading 1,000 words versus 300 words,” Shanahan said. “You don’t want it to replace more substantial reading.”
Yup. Let’s dumb down the curriculum even further to be certain the least motivated kids make it to the bottom rung. Continue allowing them to make the decisions about what they “want” to learn.
The same kind of crap psychologizing that’s destroyed the craft and career of teaching in America. The foolishness that’s produced a nation ill-equipped to learn anything on their own.
Posted: Fri - May 4, 2007 at 07:16 AM