Read this Michal...and keep standing for what's right. There are far
too few people in education and art in particular who 'have a clue!!'
-----Original Message-----
From: M. Austin [mailto:whest177@wheatstate.com]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:35 AM
To: TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [teacherartexchange] casting paper a quickie using TP
I'm not going to get into an argument with you, but I have a Tibetan
mother-in-law, a Jamaican cousin, and a Polish brother-in-law. We all
get
together and celebrate Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, whatever. We all
share in our prayers - going around the table as each religion is given
it's
moment. We should spend as much time honoring tolerance for other's
belief
as we do defending our right to do away with that that offends us. In
the
district where I teach, we are a monoculture - we have no diversity in
race
or culture. When we turn in our state reports, all we can turn in is
males/females and socio-economic levels. Why should we do away with our
tradition because it doesn't jive with what is being done in other parts
of
the country?
~Michal
> Just because there has never been a complaint tht doesn't mean it is
the
> correct thing to do.