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[B Stieg]

68. You do show excellent restraint in terms of anger. And manage to stay away from ad hominem!

Nonetheless, I would again suggest that you look in the mirror, especially if this is the way you respond to "today's educationally challenged students" or, what you seem to assume in my case, "the ignorant."

I've worked with students at every level from 7th grade to post-docs in both public and private settings over the past thirty years and am currently teaching at one of the most diverse state university campuses in the nation. And yes, I have graded AP's, taught SAT prep courses and worked on standardized testing reform with New York State legislators (through NYACAC) and as a director of college counseling and all the rest (not sure how you equate "social promotions" with standardized testing). But I really don't think that this is about a credentials pissing contest.

Instead, I'm still curious as to what's different about the challenge you think today's student presents and which you are, apparently, in the business of fixing. Since "The Cave" teachers have been moving to dispel ignorance (as fraught as is Socratic method) in response to a spectrum of subjectivity. You imply community, yet the sense your rhetoric gives is that this community merely forms in agreement with your perspective. I fail to see how a pedagogy of "us and them" is anything but a performative re-inscription of that which you claim to abhor.

Your passion is admirable; your adherence to binaries, disturbing. So, I'd watch my fucking mouth if I were you: your students aren't quite as oblivious as you seem to think.