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In the article Carlson is talking about how in schools we should be teaching our children how to create and to live in a democratic community were we are to be the teaching the values of supporting and respecting people. But for some reason it seems that when it come to gay people we always seem to shove them under the rug. "gay people have for the most part been made absent,invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological "Other."
Carlson sees the struggle between the "new right" and the tradtional family were father always new best.
Former President Bill Clinton created a rule for the military called "Dont Ask Dont Tell" In terms to gays in the miltary. It allows people who are gay or lesbian to be in the military but they are not allowed to admit to it for fear of being discharged. Again this is just another example of making them invisable.I think Carlson is implying that the rule of "Dont Ask Dont tell" Applies to school also though they take more drastic measures to make sure it insured. "account of the specific techniques and apparatuses of power that have been employed om the school tp keep gayness "in its place" as an invisible presence. Three techniques of normalization and (hence) marginalization have been of primary importance in this regard: (1) the erasure of gayness in the curriculum, (2) the "closeting" and "witch hunting" of gay teachers and (3) verbal and physical intimidation of gay teacher and students."
Even though were suppose to teach kids to treat everyone evenly when it come to being different we always find someway to cover it up and make it like it never there when it fully is.
Carlson argument is basically this in a nutshell. there is a war waging between new age thinking and the old fashion thinking of "Father knows best." and the simple fact that the society we live in is a white heterosexual male dominated society. So instead of letting the fact that people maybe gay lesbian or bisexual be know in school were supose to be teaching them to respect vaule people in a democratic society but when we make it in schools that gays and lesbian basicly dont exsit from not hirering gay and lesbian teaches to take storeies about gay and lesbian off the school reading list how is this going to be possible.
In school on Tuesday I would like to talk more about the "Dont Ask dont tell" rule and why it seems that it not only applies to the military but to the school too and also why school fear the potential knowledge or is it influence of gay and lesbians on our classmates you children. After this it got me wonder why because I remember things like that in school. No of the books we read had a bi gay or lesbian tone to it. I'm not sure if any of my teachers were bi, gay, or lesbian but from the ones I got to know really well they weren't, And I really would love to know why what so wrong with them that we have to make it so there not exsitant as much as possible.
I found a article that shows them trying to make it easier for Gay and Lesbians to have a better school experience but at the same time give reasons why people are against homosexuality being taught in schools.
Former President Bill Clinton created a rule for the military called "Dont Ask Dont Tell" In terms to gays in the miltary. It allows people who are gay or lesbian to be in the military but they are not allowed to admit to it for fear of being discharged. Again this is just another example of making them invisable.I think Carlson is implying that the rule of "Dont Ask Dont tell" Applies to school also though they take more drastic measures to make sure it insured. "account of the specific techniques and apparatuses of power that have been employed om the school tp keep gayness "in its place" as an invisible presence. Three techniques of normalization and (hence) marginalization have been of primary importance in this regard: (1) the erasure of gayness in the curriculum, (2) the "closeting" and "witch hunting" of gay teachers and (3) verbal and physical intimidation of gay teacher and students."
Even though were suppose to teach kids to treat everyone evenly when it come to being different we always find someway to cover it up and make it like it never there when it fully is.
Carlson argument is basically this in a nutshell. there is a war waging between new age thinking and the old fashion thinking of "Father knows best." and the simple fact that the society we live in is a white heterosexual male dominated society. So instead of letting the fact that people maybe gay lesbian or bisexual be know in school were supose to be teaching them to respect vaule people in a democratic society but when we make it in schools that gays and lesbian basicly dont exsit from not hirering gay and lesbian teaches to take storeies about gay and lesbian off the school reading list how is this going to be possible.
In school on Tuesday I would like to talk more about the "Dont Ask dont tell" rule and why it seems that it not only applies to the military but to the school too and also why school fear the potential knowledge or is it influence of gay and lesbians on our classmates you children. After this it got me wonder why because I remember things like that in school. No of the books we read had a bi gay or lesbian tone to it. I'm not sure if any of my teachers were bi, gay, or lesbian but from the ones I got to know really well they weren't, And I really would love to know why what so wrong with them that we have to make it so there not exsitant as much as possible.
I found a article that shows them trying to make it easier for Gay and Lesbians to have a better school experience but at the same time give reasons why people are against homosexuality being taught in schools.
I also posted the first quote you used. I realised how true it is that gayness is made invisible in today's society.
ReplyDeleteReally excellent discussion of Carlson, Anne. You make a great point about DADT and its connection to schools. Let's talk more about this in class.
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