http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/11/pelosi-in-da-house.html a corner of wonder on the web since 1995 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/11/pelosi-in-da-house.html/comment-page-1#comment-209 jsokohl Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:47:03 +0000 http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/11/pelosi-in-da-house/#comment-209 Nice note--I, too, remember feeling depressed in '94. Still, the tide of Bill was so strong that it washed away that angst. On the other hand, I wonder why profs need to espouse their personal political beliefs in class. It just leads to so much right-wing bashing, validating screedheaads from Limbaugh to O'Reilly & all the wannabes in between. I think it's irrelevant whether a prof is Repub or Dem--and is probably inappropriate in the classroom. After all, if the class is a history of Madison's waste management & landfills, shouldn't the political discussion be about what did happen and challenging students to ponder why decisions were made, rather than adding judgement on those decisions? As HK Butterfield said, "Let the people of the past live in the past." So while I totally agree with your political stance, I'm just worried that Jacobs' comment lead to right-wing derision. Let's face it--a Republican student in the class probably would've felt uncomofortable, eh? Ciao, joe Nice note–I, too, remember feeling depressed in ’94. Still, the tide of Bill was so strong that it washed away that angst.
On the other hand, I wonder why profs need to espouse their personal political beliefs in class. It just leads to so much right-wing bashing, validating screedheaads from Limbaugh to O’Reilly & all the wannabes in between.
I think it’s irrelevant whether a prof is Repub or Dem–and is probably inappropriate in the classroom. After all, if the class is a history of Madison’s waste management & landfills, shouldn’t the political discussion be about what did happen and challenging students to ponder why decisions were made, rather than adding judgement on those decisions? As HK Butterfield said, “Let the people of the past live in the past.”
So while I totally agree with your political stance, I’m just worried that Jacobs’ comment lead to right-wing derision. Let’s face it–a Republican student in the class probably would’ve felt uncomofortable, eh?
Ciao,
joe

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