Burbank High School teacher’s Shakespeare aversion draws national attention
Most high school English teachers adore William Shakespeare’s works. Dana Dusbiber does not.
In an essay published this month on a Washington Post education blog, the Luther Burbank High School teacher explained she does not want to teach Shakespeare’s works despite his esteemed place in American education because his perspective does not speak well to her ethnically diverse students.
It is shame this person, we dare not call her a teacher, is so incensed at the idea of non-whites receiving a proper and useful education.
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Given the success of the 60's movie Romeo and Juliette in period dress, and the overwhelming success of the mor recent version in modern clothing, presenting it as a gang war, I challenge her assumption it doesn't speak to.minorities. it is HER JOB to.make it relevant. Idiot!!
She needs to read The Taming of the Shrew and see if she recognizes herself, or maybe she already did this, and that's why she hates Shakespeare.
She is more like "A streetcar named Desire"........
Shakespeare has replied: Et tu dumbass?
The writings of Shakespeare and Voltaire inspire free thinking, a little socialist like this useless waste of O2 can't be having that, now can we?
Someone should suggest her students read Orwell's Animal Farm, and really watch her vapor-lock.
So why are we teaching the kids ANYTHING about literature, then?
She's basically telling them, "If you write something, then you'll just be hated in the future, because it no longer holds meaning for anyone. You can't write anything that will be relevant to future societies, so don't bother. The present is all that matters."
"Prick us do we not bleed? Wrong us, do we not revenge? Cry havoc! And Let sip the conservative dogs of war!