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Re: Ruh-roh Shaggy! How hard IS it to teach English in CO?
Posted by Ali on 5/02/08

    On 5/02/08, Rodeo wrote:
    > Oh, please. We don't hate California people. We are just aware
    > that their values and academic abilities may not be those that we
    > want imparted to Colorado children.

    I was just going to leave this thread alone after a couple of uncool
    Coloradans (whom I know to be in the minority) responded rudely, but
    this silly post wonted a response.

    If you're a teacher, do you carry this same attitude to your
    students? If a student landed in your classroom after relocating
    from California to Colorado, would you treat her with the same
    prejudiced disdain with which you responded to my post? Or would you
    take to heart that she is an individual, her values are based on her
    experiences, family, and upbringing, and that her geographic
    location has virtually nothing to do with it? I imagine that you are
    more apt to do the latter.

    In addition, California is the third largest state in the nation,
    and the most populous by far. Given those two facts, it is
    ridiculous to assume one homogeneous set of undesirable values from
    a population of approximately 36,000,000. Even the majority that
    live in urban centers have widely disparate attitudes toward all of
    the major social and political issues we face as a nation today.
    Your statement also totally discounts the large number of people who
    live in suburbs and rural areas and share similar views to their
    counterparts in Colorado.

    As for academic abilities, "I don't think that word means what you
    think it means," to quote Inigo Montoya. Wouldn't any academic
    ability brought by the student, based on the fact that they're
    generally the same wherever you go, be a good thing?

    Bottom line: Blanket generalizations rarely do anything but
    highlight the ignorance of the speaker. I'm glad that the many
    friends I've made on my visits to Colorado have proven time and
    again that one who moves to Colorado will be surrounded by kind
    people who will judge her based on who she is, not where she came
    from.

     
     

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