I totally agree! The political correctness has gotten to the point that my son, an advanced placement student(:thumbsup:Awesome! says a proud father) who is put in an "intergrated" class in which they combine the lowest achieving students with the highest achieving students and expect them to tutor their peers when they finish an assignment early because it was below their abilities instead of challenging them and educating them to their fullest potential! WHEW!!! Sorry to vent, but it's been eating me alive! The administration says that they don't want to put the slower students in a seperate class because they would have to hire more teachers and it would "hurt their spirits". AAAWWWW!!! Isn't that sweet?
budlover13 Reviewed by budlover13 on . How political correctness is destroying lit These are bad times for the study of the book, particularly in the States. College curriculums are stuffed with works by mediocre writers who champion idendity politics (i.e. Alice Walker) and so are loved for being, by our age's standards, morally righteous. The late Victorian aesthetes are gone--swarms of feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial critics assure us all that what matters most in a book is its examination of power structures, and that art for art's sake is a bourgeois lie designed to Rating: 5