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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's as if Fox news personalities are contributing to this forum.  Reduce everything to an either- or- mindset.  Either progressivism or academic progress.  Either whole language or phonics.  Either workshop model or "teaching".   Either DEI or incompetence.

I feel sorry for all of your kids.  [/quote]

Nope. Conflating pedagogy with politics is really toxic - just stop. There was one comment about DEI and the rest of the discussion was about teaching methods. [/quote]

My comment isn't about DEI.  It's about the toxic mindset of "either- or-" which is in fact a hallmark of Fox news.  Reducing everything to and "either- or-" mindset ignores nuance.  It was never supposed to be EITHER whole language OR phonics.  It's ridiculous to think that progressivism and academic progress are mutually exclusive.  It's just plain ignorant to express that the workshop model assumes a lack of teaching of that DEI is a cover up for ignorance.  So no, I won't stop pointing out the danger of this type of thinking nor will I take back the fact that although all sides engage in this mindset, it is most pervasive with the Fox News playbook.  [/quote]

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