Multicultural Education Means Mediocre Education :: miscellaneous

Multicultural Education Means Mediocre EducationLet me bulge out this essay by stating that I am a retired slope teacher of 34 divisions experience and believe that I have treated all of my students fairly and equitably. Three times I had been named into Whos Who Among American Teachers and two of those nominations have been by minority students, wizard black and one Hispanic. Those students realized that my classroom standards were just as tough on them as they were on the majority Caucasian students and that I gave them no favoritism, slack or handicap for their minority-status ethnicity. I had always refused to dumb down my curriculum (Grammar, Vocabulary, Literature, piece Skills) to accommodate students that lacked motivation, desire, curiosity, cooperation, respect for teacher authority and a willingness to learn. A year before I retired in 1999 my Middle Schools side of meat plane section had a special curriculum meeting and the Administration and my Department Supervi sor wanted to change and modernize the English curriculums lit textbooks. The choice eventually narrowed down to two decided textbook series (grades six-to-eight) and my schools nine English teachers voted on which companys series to incorporate into the schools English curriculum. Obviously administrative fiat (and pressure and trends from the State Department of Education) was more than than important than teacher democratic input and the English Departments overwhelmingly selected first choice was abruptly discarded because the other more politically correct literature textbook series from the administratively favorite(a) company happened to have more cultural diversity and subsequently was more multicultural. For thirty-four years I had loved teaching imaginative literature featuring such accomplished authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Alexander Dumas, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Washington Irving, Jules Verne, spot Twain, S.E. Hinton, George Eliot, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, O. Henry and James Thurber. Apparently the fact that all of the aforementioned(prenominal) authors were white was a major problem because most of them had been effectively excluded in the newly acquired literature texts. The old literature texts and program were too white-oriented and were non consistent with New Jersey and USA politically correct trends in multicultural education.The new eighth grade literature textbook feature on its cover a painting of Sam Adoqueis characterization of Rockney C. A statement inside the text indicated that Sam Adoquei was born in the West African country of Ghana and that Adoquei was a contemporary artisan that loved painting landscapes.