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Just finished my lesson plan for next wednesday including signing petitions and writing letters to congressmen in regards to Africa.  Does this cross some Educational ethical line?

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  1. kmo532 Says:
    April 13, 2005 at 12:16 am

    Bill Nye is just a wealth of information, huh?

  2. Yellow_Clogger Says:
    April 13, 2005 at 12:16 am

    ooooh dave.  we should have a conversation sometime about my high school experience, which included reading howard zinn’s history of the people as an additional american history textbook, protests, walk outs, petitions, letter writing, etc.  writing letters to congresspeople in regards to a world issue is very far from crossing an ethical line–it’s an honest lesson in civics and citizenship, as well as world awareness, the impact of world events on us as people, and other stuff.  what would cross the educational ethics line would be if you were to tell them that they maybe should not care about people dying and suffering, or that events of such magnitude don’t matter…or if you taught them that this is the only way to think, instead of an outlet, a result, of thought and beliefs.  you still leave the end open for their own brains…they can choose to participate or not, right?  ( as in you’re not lowering their grade if they refuse to add their name).  sorry for the long comment.  i admire the fact that you’re going to do this and make education real. 

  3. setter41 Says:
    April 13, 2005 at 12:47 am

    Funny. I just finished my lesson plan for tomorrow morning about 10 minutes ago.

  4. T_Freaking_Face Says:
    April 13, 2005 at 2:29 am

    Dave – I never took you for a Xanga person…

  5. talkative_girlie Says:
    April 13, 2005 at 2:29 am

    i dont know if i can handle your profile pic dave…it’s just…eessh 😉

  6. conditioned_response Says:
    April 14, 2005 at 12:26 pm

    is this actually dave working on this site…because i feel like it’s another petey and joe-related faux xanga…

  7. cyclopticcupcake Says:
    April 15, 2005 at 12:24 am

    wait, people make FAUX xanga’s?
    i think it is not only within the ethicalboundaries but is a tangible way to makestudents understand the power they can have.
    as noam chomsky says:
    to some degree it matters who’s in officebut it matters more how much pressurethey are under from the public.

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