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“Wait. I’m lying. I don’t like being scared. People homeschool because they feel that no other choice makes sense for who they are. Being brave is what we do if there’s no other choice. I need an editor. I don’t want to be brave, I want to write and have someone save me from myself. People who send their kids to school also do it because there is no other choice. School is a great way to assure you or the kid or both you and the kid are fitting in. We all want that. Just not all of us get it from school.”
I LOVE this last paragraph. Editor or not, you are a fantastic thinker and writer. Thanks for putting yourself out there for the benefit of the rest of us.
I’m politically correct because my mother raised me to have manners and be respectful. Not because of school.
Thanks, Penelope, you’re on a roll. Careers, Education, and Mailbag have new posts. If you write more without an editor, more power to you.
Re: Federalist – Madison, Hamilton, and Jay; not Adams and Jefferson.
Oh, no! I like to think I know about this topic! Making the correction. Thank you.
Penelope
My pleasure, ma’am.
I think people jump into debates and argue without exploring how the other party defines terms. Political correctness is one of them. Wikipedia has an interesting page on the whole background of PC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness ). Did you know there are liberal and conservative versions of PC? Also, the Washington Post has an article titled ‘How ‘politically correct’ went from compliment to insult’ ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-politically-correct-went-from-compliment-to-insult/2016/01/13/b1cf5918-b61a-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html?utm_term=.1f9e268d4420 ) so the context and source need to be taken into account. I don’t consider myself to be very PC. I do try to be respectful and courteous. What I don’t do is mince words at the expense of not being as accurate and complete as possible.
What I don’t like about political correctness appeared in an article I read this morning. The article is titled ‘Should Texas Schoolchildren Be Taught That Alamo Defenders Were ‘Heroic’?’ with a tagline of “A committee is recommending that the State Board of Education cut the word from the school curriculum standards because it is ‘value-charged.’” at https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/texas-schoolchildren-taught-alamo-defenders-heroic/ .
The article starts off with this paragraph – “The concept of defenders of the Alamo being heroic is engrained in the history of this state—and in the psyche of most Texans. The Alamo has been compared to the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, in which an outnumbered Greek army fended off a much larger Persian army for several days before being annihilated. But a committee streamlining the state’s history curriculum standards has removed the word “heroic” from a proposed revision of the curriculum because it is “a value-charged word.”
The committee has also made some other recommendations which serve to dilute history and “estimates it will shave off 90 minutes of teaching time.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner George P. Bush have weighed in with their disapproval. A public hearing and vote are scheduled to take place this week. Here’s the thing. If I were doing my own research (self-directed learning), it would be up to me if I were interested one way or the other to explore further. In this case (school environment), the teacher and the curricula are determining factors.