Prager's caller mentioned three nutty things from Crossroads. Just for the record I'm writing them down:
The school required them to call teachers by their first names.
Every year there was a school-wide "coming out" day when boys were invited to wear dresses to school. Mostly it was boys from the drama dept who did so, and the boys from the athletic teams picked on them as a result. So much for "enlightenment".
His senior year, when he was taking an elective on Marxism, the class had to write a 25-page report on the benefits of Marxism.
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I just wonder how many of the works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Austen, Milton, Dryden, Johnson, Swift, Fielding, Twain, Hawthorne, and Dickens they ever ended up reading?
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My son texted me from Xroads at lunch today. I had asked him what he was reading. He's an eighth grader at Crossroads. He just finished Dubliners by Joyce. Now he's reading Thomas Hardy, both great commies. Prager's caller is what most of his listeners are; sadly misinformed.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't answer my questions, you just tried to fling mud, a sign that either you know your argument is empty or that you don't know anything yourself.
ReplyDeleteYour son had to read a couple of good books, not the best or most precious on the planet but very good. And you want to push the notion that that means the entire curriculum is high quality. That's a huge, illogical leap.
I have lived in on the West Side for only thirty years. I haven't walked through Crossroads's book depository lately. You apparently are aware of only two books the poor kids at Crossroads have studied. If they're learning to analyze and critique these two books, chew them up, ruminate on them, swallow and digest them, and develop ideas from the food they've been eating, then they're miles ahead of their public school counterparts. I would expect that is the case.
But while they're "getting the ideas" from their books, who is helping them to find them? Teachers with a centrist worldview who are more interested in pushing critical thinking and less interested in pushing their own biases? I doubt it; the above-listed nutty ideas suggest otherwise. When I lived in West L.A. Crossroads School was a sorry joke to everyone around there, except of course to the radical left, people who love idiotic things like "coming out day".
I believe you are happy with your child's indoctrination because you agree with it. You don't see it as indoctrination precisely because you're satisfied with the intellectual fare.
And don't call me misinformed; name-calling is the first and last resort of someone who can't win the debate on his arguments alone.