Dear Albert12,

Who else are you? Are you a sock puppet?

Hi David, he's not me, could be SM2. Started the new topic 'Safety regulations and employee protection laws' which Foxy and I have put our 2 cents worth in already.

Slater wanted a 'safe place' for his kid to learn a sanitised version of English studies. Indeed he proposed home schooling where “I would be able to filter out or soften its most damaging elements”.

I will remind you of what you wrote;

“Sorry to interrupt your snowflake whinge as I know that you would prefer class rooms to be a safe space for left whinge ideology and not interrupted by nasty counter opinions and facts.”

Perhaps you had better have a chat with Slater so the two of you can determine what you are having a whinge about.

Further you claim; “That Salter raised concerns that his child's English teacher was neglecting her duty to teach English”.

No he wasn't. Where did you glean this from?

An example of great literature which addressed the politics of the day is Shelley’s “The Mask of Anarchy”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_Anarchy is a discussion of the poem

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mask-of-anarchy/ contains the verse

It is a powerful poem. Shelley’s feelings were aroused by the injustice that day in massacring protesting workers. The English teacher seems to me to be trying to get his students to understand the feelings which create literature.

Another great poem was that of Hardy’s which addressed the futility of war.

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-man-he-killed/

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because--
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like--just as I--
Was out of work--had sold his traps--
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.

Thomas Hardy

Great writers are involved in the world, and great English teachers try to have their students feel that involvement.

School should be about learning how to think for yourself.

I imagine that in schools these days you're only allowed to think and question things they want to steer you towards thinking and questioning about in a social and political context.

Other things in a social or political context they want to make your minds up for you and if you think of question those things then they would oppose your free thinking and questioning of things for yourself.

The whole worlds just one big psyop.

SR,

What unmitigated bollocks. Perhaps you could point to the NSW English curriculum and show where US civil rights is included. I doubt that it is even in the history curriculum.

I wonder if the left whingers actually include any English in the English classes. It would explain why so many public school pupils are functionally illiterate. It would also explain why private schools do so much better than public schools, because their "sanitised" classes actually teach the curriculum.

P.S. that the English teacher was not teaching English was pure negligence. I guess that if she taught the rise of fascism through the lens of the right she would have been fired forthwith.