Ken deRosa just posted Martin Kozloff's imaginary dialog between a student who has not been taught to read and his fourth-grade teacher:
Kid. "You are a racist because---despite all your bull$#@! talk about serving the needs of DIVERSE learners---and I am pretty f%$@ing diverse---you INSIST on having me GUESS what the words say and you REFUSE to teach me the five main reading skills in a STRAIGHTFORWARD way, as the RESEARCH and 3000 YEARS of history shows. THAT'S why you are a skanky, airheaded, puss-bag racist piece of $*&^. And I will hate you forever for refusing to do what the simplest COMMON sense would tell anyone with a SOUL to do. But you care MORE for your precious PEDAGOGY and your PRIVILEGED social class of UNACCOUNTABLE educators, than you care for a real live human being, you duplicitous smug self-satisfied sack of crap."
It's a version of the Alessi effect.
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