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“This Is About White Supremacy And Colonization”: Teacher Group Calls For Shakespeare To Be Removed From Reading Lists

While the House managers were quoting Shakespeare in their case against President Donald Trump last week, it appears that the Bard may soon be less known than “Poor Yorick” who we once knew so well. There is a growing campaign by teachers to drop Shakespeare and other Western literature from classes. One group, #DisruptTexts, insists “This is about White supremacy and colonization.” Lorena German, National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Racism Committee chair and a co-founder of the Disrupt Texts forum, insisted “everything about the fact that he was a man of his time is problematic about his plays. We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt the ways people are characterized and developed.”

We previously discussed how the portrait of William Shakespeare was removed at the University of Pennsylvania’s English Department as a statement for greater racial sensitivity and diversity. Students are increasingly being deprived of such foundational classics as “Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “King Lear” or Richard III. These are works that are not only masterpieces but shaped generations of later works and continue to be referenced in modern writing.  Yet, this is a movement that has been building since 1987 when Jesse Jackson led Stanford undergraduates chanting, “Hey, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”

Amanda McGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian wrote in the January issue of School library journal  that “Shakespeare’s work is full of problematic and outdated ideas, lots of misogyny, racism, homophobia, class discrimination, anti-Semitism, misogyny”

German insisted that Shakespeare “is not ‘universal’ in a way that other authors are not. He is not more ‘timeless’ than anyone else.” Some teachers advocating replacing Shakespeare with such works as “Hunger Games.”

Shakespeare could have seen his coming when he wrote in As You Like It that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” However, the exiting of Shakespeare will come at a terrible cost for our students. While Shakespeare appears the new rallying cry for woke teachers, he is “a man more sinned against than sinning.”  If he is stripped away from our reading lists, our students will be the poorer for it.

 

193 thoughts on ““This Is About White Supremacy And Colonization”: Teacher Group Calls For Shakespeare To Be Removed From Reading Lists”

  2. These cultists are the most interesting combination of insane zealots and disingenuous poseurs. And in what world do people of this century imagine that we will read what is dictated to us by this mean little group of throwbacks?

    1. “And in what world do people of this century imagine that we will read what is dictated to us by this mean little group of throwbacks?”

      ***

      This world. That’s what’s wrong.

  3. For racial fairness we can replace the Western Canon and Western sciences and mathematics with the African Canon and sciences.

    That should save a lot of floor and shelf space in university libraries.

    State governments need to intervene and put a stop to the mad contagion gripping universities. Fund only STEM programs. The faculty and administrators have already butchered everything else.

    Students may have to go to France to study the humanities. Macron has already declared the American PC Lunacy unwanted and dangerous. Never thought I would say it: Be more like France.

  4. Don’t you hate virtue signaling prigs like Amanda McGregor? She the kinda of person Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote in Henry IV “[t]hou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, [Scottish] pouch!” Well you might as well get rid of Bobby Burns. Hell, even Burns knew of this disjunctive librarian – “thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel !”

        1. Before I was removed from a public primary school, I had frequent “diversity encounters” on the playground and “afta skoo” which ended in fighting, and more than once myself having received a thorough beating for my “white privilege” from the “descendants of former slaves,” Such were my early “encounters with diversity.” Mercifully, I was removed from the public school system. Thereafter, I was given the best education money could buy in my little corner of flyover. In private and in Catholic schools, I received joyous instruction in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Most fortunate== a true “white privilege” to enjoy if there ever was one.

          Being of partly Anglo-Saxon ancestry,. as are most of the readers here too I suspect, my heart swells with ethnic pride at the glorious dramatic art of the Bard. While it was not my achievement to create, except as we recreated it in our humble school plays, I feel the ethnic pride much the same as any son of Albion

          Here’s a little song Ms German may wish to listen to. I doubt she could enjoy it. It will not swell her breast with pride as it does mine. But perhaps the reader will find it inspiring. I do!

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2R24uY5CeU

          Sal Sar

  5. The real reason these misnamed “teachers” want to drop Shakespeare is they are too ignorant to understand what he wrote.

  6. Wiping out history ensures that future generations will go down the path of racism. But, isn’t that what the left wants, tribalism? Divide people into smaller groups fighting with one another so they can control the people. Look at how Stalin established the borders for the Stans on their southern border.

    1. Meyer asks a good question. I believe the billionaires want to wipe out the nation states and at times tribalism can be used for that.

      But they also want to wipe out tribal identity too, make no mistake

      They want to inflict the most atomizing forms of individualism on everyone around the world

      why?

      To make us all more uniform, more bland, more the same. To make us less capable of joint and concerted action which might threaten the billionaires, and to make us more pliable and complaisant consumers

      They want to destroy religious community too. Of course in most places, tribe, nation, and religion overlap. That’s the normal condition of humanity the past few thousand years.

      We have to go back to the Tower of Babel for a lesson about these things.

      Sal Sar

  7. More ideas, not fewer. Compare and contrast seems a quaint and ancient notion. Literature, philosophy, religion are imperiled by this exclusionary obsession in inclusionary clothing.

  8. Turley misrepresents at least one of the groups he writes against: From their Jan 2021 statement:

    “As our mission statement says, #DisruptTexts is “a crowdsourced, grassroots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve.” We believe that education, and literacy in particular, can be transformative. Through a more equitable curriculum and antiracist pedagogy, we believe that we can effect a more just world. All students deserve an education that is inclusive of the rich diversity of the human experience. They deserve one that introduces them to and affirms the voices both inside and outside their individual lives…….

    We do not believe in censorship and have never supported banning books. To claim otherwise is outright false. It is a mischaracterization of our work made to more easily attack us, serve an agenda, and discredit the need for antiracist education. Teachers and schools determine curriculum for any number of reasons, and in fact, we know that censorship and banning efforts disproportionately hurts LGBTQIA+ authors and BIPoC authors are already underrepresented in the publishing industry…….”

    Disupt Texts consists of 4 teachers.

  9. I agree with canceling Shakespeare. I hope Amazon is listening. All of Western literature, science, math, language, grammar, music, and art is incurably racist and needs to be destroyed. The only Western thing that is not racist is basketball.

  10. I’m deeply disturbed that the Texas “woke” suggestion was spoken in the NCTE name, this objection to Shakespeare. We’ve been through censorship battles forever, and what should or shouldn’t be on “lists” has included Harry Potter. Choices are available in most good English classrooms, and literature circles based on student ability were the norm when I taught public school full time. Just remember who is really controlling the reading lists: Publishing companies and school boards. Pay attention, and if you believe in public schools, get on those boards and exam text selections. And listen to some of your students’ zoom classes if you want real outrage. At this point, most teachers are probably desperate to have students read ANYTHING other than their Instagram accounts.
    Hunger Games is a good start, frankly, following Animal Farm and 1984. Our students need a particular kind of “woke” right now.
    And don’t drop “Othello”, I’d say. The “pound of flesh” speech comes to mind during the impeachment show. Anonymous, why are you not sharing your name?

    2. Pound of flesh is from Merchant of Venice. Merchant of Venice is mostly banned now as it is considered antisemitic. No doubt Ms German would agree

      Sal

  11. What happened to “teachable moments” ? Aren’t there lessons for generations to learn about the evolution of society? Woke is closed minded and harmful to generations to come.

  13. Good to see you’re venturing into the Age of Rage again this morning, Jon.

    I thought perhaps since you have a window to step away from trump surrogacy that it would be star spangled awesome for you to venture into the lies trump’s lawyers told before the tribunal in his impeachment trial and possible consequences for it. Or a quick dive into the defamation lawsuits brought against Fox and Newsmax? Probably you’re bound by disclosure guidelines from talking about Fox…, but hey, tee off on Newsmax. It’d be excellent market share protection, no?

    As to Shakespeare, agreed that shorting students on his (?) works would deprive them of the master of story creation and truly masterful use of language and poetry. But he’s an acquired taste and probably shouldn’t dominate the academy the way he does now. It’s a matter of time priority on some level…, every moment spent in study of Shakespeare is a minute not spent studying some equally influential and enlightening works from other authors. So…, some is good, protected syllabus domination = not so good.

    I say bring me a bit more of Harlem Renaissance and Carson McCullers!

    Let’s hear about these Dominion suits, ay?

    Elvis Bug

    1. Anyone that complains about too much Shakespeare and not enough Carson McCullers lets us know all we need to know…about them!

        1. Oh it very well does ricky bobby elvis insect…it sure does. Carson McCullers – really ?…better waste of time skipping rocks on a calm pond than reading down to that level .

          1. Oh please…, go out and get some actual talent before you even put McCullers name in your lying mouth.

            EB

    2. “As to Shakespeare, agreed that shorting students on his (?) works would deprive them of the master of story creation and truly masterful use of language and poetry. But he’s an acquired taste and probably shouldn’t dominate the academy the way he does now.”

      Fair enough, Bug. My only concern is that these teachers are driven by an overtly political agenda, as opposed to real art. And I’m less concerned about what they would deemphasize as I am about what they would foist on their students as art.

      AnonJF presented their full statement, salted with crackpot nostrums, and he said this only amounts to four “weird sisters,” so I’m not going to lose any sleep over it–yet.

      I don’t mind the idea–too much–of widening the literary experience, as long as it’s not indoctrination or one-sided. I’m sure there are good leftwing writers–maybe you have some favorites you can suggest to me.

      I can propose Nabokov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and Pasternak as worthy antidotes. The Russians are the greatest story tellers in the world. They even inspired the Russian collusion fiction. Who can top that?

      As for Shakespeare, he might be an acquired taste, but we might also agree that once the taste is acquired, we tend to measure every other author by the Bard.

      1. Ahhh, precisely why to widen out the canon, if for one reason, no one can live up to Shakespeare’s ability to construct a story. But for many students currently, the works are almost a foreign language. Agreed on the Russian writers…,for the same reason Whitman and Dickinson are poets to study from this culture…

        Reason why I suggested the Harlem renaissance and Carson McCullers above is they’re a clear launching point for what came after here in the States in the modern realm.

        Elvis Bug

        1. Poetry instruction is withering on the vine in school. Kids have no patience to read Whitman. Poetry is meant to be shared out loud and all the youths just pecking away at their phones are not interested.

          And yet consider how that medium has advanced certain varieties of it. Poetry lives on not only in music but even more so in the lyrics of hip hop ie, rap. Here is one rare venue where I praise African American men– “rap” “hiphop” etc are really enjoyable explorations of poetic verse

          Now, apropos of our common theme here, I will share the last stanza from a song by “Ice-T” from many years ago, “Freedom of Speech- just watch what you say!”

          very prophetic!

          Sal Sar

          “Freedom of Speech, let ’em take it from me
          Next they’ll take it from you, then what you gonna do?
          Let ’em censor books, let ’em censor art
          PMRC, this is where the witch hunt starts
          You’ll censor what we see, we read, we hear, we learn
          The books will burn
          You better think it out
          We should be able to say anything, our lungs were meant to shout
          Say what we feel, yell out what’s real
          Even though it may not bring mass appeal
          Your opinion is yours, my opinion is mine
          If you don’t like what I’m sayin’? Fine
          But don’t close it, always keep an open mind
          A man who fails to listen is blind
          We only got one right left in the world today
          Let me have it or throw The Constitution away”

          2. Poetry, indeed, lives in the Sal Sar. And Ice Tea represent from back in the day.

            Some modern verse I find inspiring:

            Guards sell me explosives
            things are really tricky…

            you say moral fiber
            i say processed spaghetti

            you say politics
            i say those meant to fade without grace

            you say utility police
            i say improper abuse of designer steroids.

            EB

            1. very interesting verse EB! -Sal

              Here is another old favorite by ICE T that I find myself remembering on a regular basis “the Tower”

              “I’m rollin’ up in a big gray bus
              And I’m shackled down
              Myself that’s who I trust
              The minute I arrived
              Some sucker got hit
              Shanked ten times
              Behind some bullshit
              Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
              So without hesitatin’
              I made a weapon quick
              If found a sharp piece of metal
              Taped it to a stick
              … hit the weight pile
              The brothers was swole
              The attitudes was cold
              Felt the tension on the yard
              From the young and the old
              But I’m a warrior
              I got my ground to hold

              So I studied the inmates
              To see who had the power
              The Whites? The Blacks?
              Or just the gun tower!”

              That last couplet is a very meaningful question. Perhaps wise to recall when we get into these squabbles over racial matters that there is a superior overweening group that stands to benefit from our squabbles getting out of hand so that they can squash us all. The billionaire group of oligarchs is the Tower, to be precise.

            1. Sal — Amusing. Most people don’t know who Hengist and Horsa were. I have often wondered why Britons who favor mass immigration don’t remember what happened when they invited Hengist and Horsa over.

              1. Sure– and why the same Americans who wring their hands about how our ancestors stole North America from the Indians, are so eager to repeat the mistake the Indians made by a sufficient failure to resist. I think the reason why is very simple. They hate their own kind. Sal

                1. Not sure about sufficient failure to resist — I do live on the island where the first resistance to the white man began after all.

                  What they didn’t have were firearms, a sense of private property or the sense of total war the europeans brought from the 30 years war i.e. european penchant for massacres.

                  Take away the firepower and barbarity, the Indians were tactically superior.

                  EB

                  1. Anon: “Take away the firepower and barbarity, the Indians were tactically superior.”
                    ***

                    Possibly true since the Indians got a lot of practice in savagery fighting with each other.

                    What happened in North America is what has happened before in Europe when the First Farmers of Europe eventually overwhelmed the hunter/gatherer peoples who were there. An agricultural people can produce enough food to easily out-breed hunter gatherers.

                    In any event, tactical superiority can take one only so far when dealing with people who are strategically superior. Besides, the newcomers learned to fight Indian style and then some very quickly. Indian style is what Washington tried to use at Braddock’s defeat, for which he was criticized, and which was used as well at Saratoga by riflemen and almost entirely by militia at King’s Mountain.

      2. Diogenes “As for Shakespeare, he might be an acquired taste, but we might also agree that once the taste is acquired, we tend to measure every other author by the Bard.”

        ***
        I think you are right but, interestingly, Hume in his multi-volume “History of England” says he did not rate Shakespeare very highly. But then Hume had a different approach to writing. Some of his paragraphs began on one page only to finish on the next; not really appropriate for the stage.

        The translators of the King James Bible achieved about the same level of beauty in language and I suspect for the same ressons; they read their work aloud and sought euphony and beauty as well as conveyance of sublime thoughts. “God’s Secretaries” is a good account of the translation process for the KJB. Shakespeare was read aloud by accomplished actors who knew how to appeal to people and it is likely Shakespeare used that resource to refine parts of his writing. One can imagine hearing him: “No! Stop! That sounds terrible. Try saying it this way . . .”

        1. I can easily imagine it, Young, and yes, the KJB does have remarkable passages 🙂

        2. The King James version of Psalm 23 is definitely superior to the version in the NIV or the NRSV. Far more poetic. It speaks.

          Other versions are better, though, for clarity and ease of reading. Some of the archaic forms in the KJV aren’t especially helpful for clarity, accuracy (mistranslates some of the Hebrew, for instance), or readabiity.

          1. Prairie Rose — Yes, that is true. In fact the language used in the King James version was a little archaic even when the translators worked on it. They knew what they were doing. They were striving for music in language as well as thought and achieved much more than we find in other translations so that even when it is momentarily obscure it tends to be elevating. It is the version I prefer.

            Something similar was achieved in The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle. I first tried to read it as regular history and got very little out of it. Then it hit me that it was prose but also a form of music, of poetic expression, that conveys images and feelings that are unattainable with typical history. It needs reading several times just as a symphony can be heard many times. With it, however, it is also worthwhile to read Shama’s “Citizens’ about the French Revolution for excellent history.

            1. Young,
              “They were striving for music in language as well as thought and achieved much more than we find in other translations so that even when it is momentarily obscure it tends to be elevating. It is the version I prefer”

              Yes, the music of the language can be stirring. The KJV of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 is far more lyrical than that of the same verses in the NIV, same with the Gospel of Luke 2:1-14 (so what if there are issues with the literal accuracy of a census or what does an ‘inn’ mean–the poetry of it is beautiful). I do like the NIV version of Job 38-41, some excerpts:

              Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

              Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place

              Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?

              Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its necks with a flowing mane? Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?

              The music of Biblical imagery pops up, too, in the most unexpected places. One of my favorite movies and books is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. Up until a few years ago, I didn’t realize that the butterfly the unicorn talks to quotes a piece of the Bible:

              “The butterfly started to sing. “Follow me down. Follow me down. Follow me down. Follow me down.” But then he shook his head wildly and recited, “His firstling bull has majesty, and his horn are the horns of a wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth. Listen, listen, listen quickly.” (The movie lines are slightly different from the book.) That comes from Deuteronomy 33:17 (RSV).

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Whj22RpFZA
              (About the 3:50 mark)

              Though I like the music of the language in some parts of the KJV, I appreciate the greater accuracy of the NIV for discussion purposes. For example, the KJV says, “Thou shalt not kill’. A more accurate translation of the Hebrew is in the NIV, which says, “You shall not murder.” There are other spots where there were translation errors in the KJV, but it is difficult to top its poetry.

                1. Diogenes,
                  I’m glad to have brightened your day a little. The world needs more beauty to counterbalance this ‘age of rage’.

                  1. We do need more beauty to balance daily life in the Age of Rage. Much of it must be found in what is old and very fine.

  14. Professor, what about the 2.7 Billion dollar defamation lawsuit against your employer, Fox News? Don’t you think it is about time you provide your biased legal analysis of that court case? I don’t think you can avoid addressing it indefinitely. If you are contractually prohibited from mentioning it, could you at least be man enough to so inform us?

    1. Anonymous, feel free to go to any of the other billion sites that will cater to your one- sided lefty view. Only a “liberal” left would hate a site, or station, newspaper or magazine, and rather than ignore it will then try to remove it from the marketplace of ideas.

      Notice that not one conservative has ever called for MSBC or CNN to be removed due to their PROVEN record of harming the nation (see the “summer of love”) and yet the “liberals” have been trying to get rid of Tucker and Fox for years. Even the “liberal” ACLU has now joined in banning certain ideas and people.

    2. Anon: “If you are contractually prohibited from mentioning it, could you at least be man enough to so inform us?”
      **
      Why would he care about someone who isn’t even man enough to pick and identity and stick with it?

    4. any stupid clerk can make up a big number in a complaint. the notion of proving such damages is a joke to any practicing lawyer. it deserves no further comment.

  15. Is Jane Austen already gone? The Bronte sisters? Dickens? Twain? I assume nobody reads Voltaire, Diderot, or Beccaria any longer, and that Donne’s poems need to be shredded, along with those of Milton, who was unfair to Lucifer, and the silly legends in Plutarch, whose histories are chock full of unwoke attitudes and actions. Fitzgerald? Hemingway? Mailer? Tacitus? Montesquieu?
    Well, they’re men, after all, so good riddance?
    Who are these censorious morons who want students to read what is easy and fasionable, but avoid what is unfamiliar and difficult?
    As a student I struggled with Pope and Milton, slogged through Chaucer and Shakespeare, read Austen despite findidng it frivolous and the English less than congenail, and dogearred my dictionary looking up new words in order to grasp the ideas in Mill. I still have to pay close attention when I read Dylan Thomas, and I reread Eliott and Pound (who certainly is no longer read by anybody, Fascist sympathizer that he was, even if he was the greatest versifier of English in the 1900s and his translations from the Provencal are exquisite).
    I read Wollstonecraft and Greer because I was curious and interested to understand what they were about, and I still have my Marx, Engels, and Lenin on the shelf next to Jefferson, Hamilton, and Paine, and my Machivallei (Discourses on Titus Livius and The Prince) sit next to Voltaire’s On Tolerance and not too far from Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments (Adam’s facsimile).
    Learning was hard, reading could be excruciating and horribly labored, but exploring new worlds was exhilarating and playing with new ideas fascinating. That my grandchildren will not have similar experiences if #DistruptTexts and other woke crusaders have their way is truly a depressing thought. They will be intellectually and morally stunted, heirs to a vicious ideology which destroys everything it finds “other.”
    It is not just that excising these writers and thinkers would come at “a terrible cost” to students; it would deprive them of the opportunity to test themselves against people whose views they do not share, to expand the ways in which they perceive reality, and to hone their linguistic skills and develop their cognitive abilities. It would leave them, as Marx might have written, intellectually immiserated.
    If the future is to consist of a diet of music videos, #TweetingNonsense, replays of Hunger Games, flaccid and fatuous Facebook posts, and mandatory genuflections to the author of On White Fragility, it is bleak indeed, and perhaps I will go gently into that good night, happy not to have to wake to the new woke days ahead.

  17. Replace Shakespeare In Colleges With The Hunger Games?
    As a former English Lit major, this post by Jonathan Turley about the National Council of Teachers efforts to ban Shakespeare from curriculums because of his alleged racism, misogyny and other unwoke views, is an affront to my intelligence, and mindless beyond belief. First, Shakespeare was writing about characters in his plays who were “of their time”. Second, a woke University Professor who seriously suggests the “the Hunger Games” is a more appropriate vehicle to teach literature to our kids is insane. Third, I don’t know if I need to remind everyone that literature is a vehicle to educate, not indoctrinate. If we ignore the foibles of our fellow human beings in our literature, we risk a future in which those foibles flourish. What is wrong with you people? Somebody needs to stand up to them. Somebody needs to speak truth to power.

    1. Rick, I too blanched when seeing a person in a position of authority state that we need more Hunger Games and less Shakespeare. The good news is that us older folks will continue to be much more intelligent than the young, loud and obnoxiously and proudly uneducated following generations.

    2. I agree that the efforts to eliminate the study of Shakespeare from the secondary school curriculum is outrageous. It seems that Lorena German is the Chair of an Anti-Racism Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). I hope that is not the official position of NCTE, an organization of which I was once a member. It is unfortunate that today’s rather arrogant educators believe that they are in a position to decide that classical literature is no longer appropriate. Coupled with lessons in critical thinking, the literature that these folks now want to cancel could provide a good experience for today’s students.

      The challenge with the study of Shakespeare is that the plays were meant to be stage productions rather than reading assignments. Perhaps the Minnesota librarian who has outlined her objections to the study of Shakespeare in a journal for librarians has not had much experience with Shakespeare. I am glad that I was an English major as an undergraduate. It was a wonderful background for law school and the practice of law. It will be unfortunate for tomorrow’s students if these arrogant educators succeed in depriving them of the classics and are permitted to push a narrative instead of providing a good learning experience for their students.

      1. Speak for yourself, phergus. I didn’t say “English lit major,” I said “English major.” Spell check for you the correct spelling of the Latin phrase that you used is “non sequitur.” I studied Latin too. Both English and Latin were helpful for my career as a corporate/securities law practitioner. Don’t be so quick to judge!

    4. I love Shakespeare as literature and drama, but, don’t slight “Hunger Games” too quickly. You may be dismissing a look at a future not so far off.

      Sal Sar

      1. Secondary school teachers should avoid literature published in the last 50 years. See what hangs on.

      3. Sal, Young just spoke about the beauty of Shakespeare when spoken. If you like Shakespeare and haven’t already done so listen to it in England where it came from and by the people who the words were directed to. I always liked Shakespeare but every time I hear it in Stratford England I am amazed at its beauty.

  18. Put some schools on the itShay list. They don’t know pig latin. “Just like Romeo and Juliet!”

  19. They might have to take some guy named MLK off the reading list due to his discussions of race.

  20. If you’re serious about your children’s education, don’t send them to public schools.

    1. I wonder how many of the private schools are that much better? The Russian Orthodox Church- Moscow Patriarchate should set up missionary schools in the US. That would have the beneficial side effect of driving the Dems-libs even crazier. They want to impose a system of totalitarian thought control.

      1. That is not the way of Orthodoxy to proselytize. Also most Orthodox Churches in America serve Greeks or Serbs or even Arab communities. They have found many recent converts from the other American people as well

        Sal Sar

      2. See the mess at the Dalton School. A lot of woke-tards in private school administration. Not a few on faculties, either.

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