C123S105L wrote:
>
> Linda: to push the matter concerning textbook content is not only great but
> absolutely necessary if we are to make any real impact on the education of
> girls
> and on what is really meant by ''fair'' Iam going to have the time soon to
> really think
> in terms of what is meant by Bias and what is meant by discrimination because
> I
> think its important to look very closely at the definitions of these two
> terms. What
> I really need its to study both from a legal point of view and since I am not
> an attorney
> I don't know where to start. Iam very interested in seeing how a TITLE IX
> lawyer
> would beging to explore and eventually be able to build a case law. What is
> writen
> in a textbook cannot be changed but when is writen is exclusionary and
> therefore
> promotes discrimination the person in charge of fomenting ideas must make the
> necessary adjustments to insure that it does not led to ''actual
> discrimination'' which
> is what is occurring in the schools with the ''one gender'' curriculums. The
> word
> woman/women is still a dirty word in educational institutions and no one
> should
> have any doubt of that. The ''best'' teacher my daughter is ever had has NEVER
> really taken one single woman and discussed her in his class as part of any of
> his lessons. There have been some brief ''token'' mentioning'' here and there
> but
> I suspect that has been done to appease me since my husband and I are
> continuing
> the ''pressure''. Talking about 'how children don't have any civil rights when
> we told
> the principal Ingrid would not longer attend GYM class because what her
> teacher
> said to her her first response was" YOU HAVE TO SEND HER IS THE LAW
> whether you want or not!!!!So when Ingrid begins middle school and again she
> begins to study male history I want to be SOOOOO prepared because Iam going to
> ask for a curriculum alternative of ''inclussion'' that gives my daughter
> equal representation and I kind of 'dread'' this because I don't know what
> will be coming. But I have made up my mind that my daughter is more or less
> done with studying
> more ''male history''...she has been doing it since Kindergarten. So I need to
> be
> very well prepared on many fronts. I need to be able to find some ''allies''
> but so
> far I have not found any in my area. At least 50 parents, mostly women, were
> at the
> PTA meeting where we did our presentation regarding educational equity and we
> did not receive ONE SINGLE call regardin it. We gave them great hand outs
> too!!
> so its a rather ''lonely'' battle....
> Lesemann <C123S105L@aol.com>
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