(PJ Media) When I was in Junior High, the bane of my existence was my English teacher. No one could put the fear of God into us like her. No one was as demanding, as fearsome, or as well-loved. She drilled us mercilessly in grammar every day and had a zero-tolerance policy regarding lazy students, particularly when it came to the written word.
She also made us read Faulkner, Shakespeare, Milton, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Charles Dickens, to name just a few. Woe to any student who used slang in her class. That could earn someone a pen to the side of the head with the remonstrance, “In this classroom, we speak the King’s English.” And she was black. My reason for mentioning this is about to become clear.
At Lincoln High School in Seattle, students in an English class were recently taught that the love of reading and writing is an indicator of white supremacy. (Read More)
