Which is worse, ripping the pages out of a book but still providing it to students, or removing it from the curriculum altogether?
(The latest is about Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.)
Friday, December 12, 2008
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It is never acceptable to tear pages out of book--and it is frightening to contemplate what is really being taught when a student is presented with a book that has pages torn out in school. The only acceptable way to negotiate the impulse is to consider teaching an excerpt from the book.
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