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From: dre@myrias.com (Duane Eitzen)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics,ont.general
Subject: Re: Teachers
Keywords: teachers, teaching, education
Message-ID: <628713436.7272@myrias.com>
Date: 3 Dec 89 18:37:15 GMT
References: <209@isgtec.UUCP> <7545@heraclitus.UUCP> <1989Nov28.190102.29281@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <7628@heraclitus.UUCP> <1989Dec2.174136.8014@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1989Dec2.174136.8014@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> chandru@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chandru Krishnan) writes:
>
>    I have my own axe to grind with teachers. When Paki-bashing was at its
>height in those nightmarish years of 1974-78 (and even in a toned down way
>after that) teachers said and did virtually nothing,except mouth a few
>platitudes and indifferently at that.
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> Those were awfully rough times for someone between the age of 10-14,who
>had to take the crude racist garbage from the student population and racism
>of a more sophisticated kind from people who are supposed to know better!
>
Along similar lines, I had a teacher (from somewhere in south asia) who
publicly refered to his students as "white trash". We sure are an awful
species, eh?

dre.


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