Multiculti Myopia

The American Spectator interviews the author of a new book on education, arising from his abysmal experience in Illinois:

Few can attest to the unintended destructive consequences of well-intentioned progressive administrators in the American public school system as well as Bernard Chapin. As school psychologist with more than a decade of teaching and administrative experience, Chapin spent years braving the halls of an inner city school in Illinois, drawn to the challenge and opportunity to effect real change. The proud educator participated in a real turnaround of the decimated school, too, until a cadre of do-gooders decided a "hip-hop environment" would be more conducive to learning than the stuffy old schoolhouse model.

Amazing but all too understandable quote of his teaching at National Lewis' ed school, based in Wilmette for years. Many of our kids were taught by teachers like these:

We need to get the utopians and leftists out of the education schools, which simply cannot be done. I taught seven master's level courses at National Lewis University from 2001 to 2003, and I cannot tell you how shocked I was by the worldview of those teachers-to-be. They had been completely indoctrinated. They were so brainwashed by multiculturalism that I unintentionally managed to get myself into an argument with a few students over whether I had the right to say that life was better in America than it was in Afghanistan under the Taliban. The students all happened to be women. Can you imagine what would have happened if they went overseas to check out the situation for themselves?

I didn't know people like Chapin existed around here, so am really thankful for his insight. Amen. Read this book. (Any teachers reading this by some extremely rare chance, see previous post.)

UPDATE: Enough of this knee-jerk racism, let's all be Americans and concentrate on choice and quality in education. Powerline on the Roberts' court decision. Good work, an enduring legacy for the President.