[AAACE-NLA] Unjust Laws should be resisted

[Kathleen de la Peña McCook]

Kearney Lykins' hysterical characterization of Ms. Kashdan's post  
demonstrates that even adult educators need lessons on critical 
thinking.
  Linda Hoover provides a far more  careful reaction. 

Kathleen de la Peña McCook 
"An Injury to One is an Injury to All"
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/mccook/


On 3 May 2007 at 8:20, Linda Hoover wrote:

All, 
Might we remember that, in the United States, it was once illegalfor 
slaves to be taught to read and for Japanese to expect to live 
outside of an internment camp. Laws are a creation of human 
beings.Should slaves not have had the opportunity to read until 
after the the Civil War or might breaking an unjust law sometimes be 
the ethnical thing to do? 
Linda Hoover 
Minneapolis 
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Kearney Lykins 
    To: aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:45 PM 
    Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] Where's the teaching? 
    All,
    
    The subject line of the Ms. Kashdan's post is spectacularly 
    misleading. The website she recommends ( http://www.nycore.org/ ) has 
    nothing to do with teaching, but everything to do with promoting 
    leftist propaganda, on the tax-payers dime. As the homepage of "New 
    York Collective of Radical Educators", it is a cookbook for extreme 
    extra-pedagogical techniques, centered on brainwashing young minds 
    about assorted fringe agenda items like:
    
    1. the "hidden evils" of service on the U. S. Military
    2. how testing creates "an oppressive and ineffective experience for 
    students"
    3. advocating social promotion of 7th graders
    
    The material recommended by Ms. Kashdan is not at all surprising 
    considering the content of the addendum to her post. Note her attempt 
    to change the terms of the illegal immigration debate, by equating 
    the opposition's term, "illegal alien" with "illegal human." This 
    sort of tactic gets us nowhere because it promotes a rhetorical 
    environment in which adversaries talk past one another. I do not side 
    with those who marched in the streets (and apparently straight out of 
    Ms. Kashdan's recommended activist classrooms) because I generally 
    oppose illegal actions. Indeed, the humans that cross our border 
    without permission have broken U.S. law, and because they have 
    decided to do so, their alien status is in fact illegal.
    
    Anyway, I searched her post and links for any materials or resources 
    related to "teaching about immigration" and found none.
    
    
    Kearney Lykins
    
    ESOL Teacher
    Virginia Beach, VA
    
    



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