Reply #30: Garbage Assignment

[jokerman93]

The teacher is an undisciplined jack*ss for even giving this assignment. Has he given even the slightest thought to what it is he's trying to accomplish by giving this assignment? When I went to school (and when I taught), writing an academic paper or even a one page essay, required a certain amount of rhetorical discipline, intellectual rigor and fact checking.

Is the purpose of this lesson to demonstrate to the students how facts may be ignored and manipulated to serve the prejudices of the author?

I'd take this crap to the school board and find out precisely what the object of this lesson is. This young teacher may be "cool" and likable, but he's a fool and doing his students a disservice if this is his idea of a history assignment.