Wed, 19 Oct 1994 06:41:49 -0700 for <socgrad@UCSD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 08:41:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Melanie Lowery <mlowery@comp.uark.edu>
Subject: Re: school colors
To: Michael Gibbons <mgibbons@cwis.unomaha.edu>

I also watched this show, and I found myself truly wondering where the 
concept of multicultural education has gone wrong. It doesn't seem to be 
teaching respect for anyone's culture except one's own. I see this here, 
and I also see it somewhat in the women's movement. Balkanization is not 
the way to go, IMHO.

Throughout most of this wonderful documentary, I felt that the kids at 
Berkeley High were pawns in the game of education reform, diversity, etc. 
I saw very little learning about math, English Lit, biology, etc. 

Did you feel any of this, or was it my own filter in play?

Melanie  


On Tue, 18 Oct 1994, Michael Gibbons wrote:

> hello folks
> 
> i've just finished watching the PBS show  SCHOOL COLORS, and found it to
> be a great production.  It did a very good job showing just how pervasive
> problems of race are in our country.  so often problems like that are easy
> to ignore since we live in largely segregated worlds that it was great to
> see the tensions and the pressures laid out for all to see.  very good. 
> on more than one occasion you could see that the school's faculty were
> operating on an entirely different set of assumptions from an entirely
> different world.  the sad thing is there seems to be no answers to the
> questions this school faces, which is sad because they mirror the
> problems our society  faces.  what answers are there?  it seems there are none. 
> what impressions did this particular movie leave on other socgradders?
> 
>