Thursday, April 25, 2002
One-Way Multiculturalism
Frederick Meekins tells of the devotion of multicultural education to every religion save one:
At Andrew Jackson Middle School in Prince George's County Maryland, educators are working diligently to reconnect students with the religious traditions of the past --- the pagan past that is. At this school, it is not enough for students to learn the names and facts surrounding the mythologies of the ancient world. Here students become active participants in antiquated rites and ceremonies best left dead or relegated to the realm of superstition. . . . [In California] Students must also memorize Koranic verses (imagine if these had these been Bible verses). They also had to stage a make-believe Jihad.
This same multicultural/bilingual approach thinks its essential for every child to learn a foreign language unless the "foreign" language a child needs to learn is English. In fact given their continued devotion to bilingual education despite its 30 years of documented failure, one might say that the bilingual education lobby is promoting a religion of its own.
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