Yes, what do working class kids need with Shakespeare and the classics.
Let them learn basic literacy skills, and leave Shakespeare and the
classics to the middle and upper classes who know how to understand them
any way.
Robert
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From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 30 September 2005 09:36
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Subject: teaching the "classics"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4295312.stm
"Other teachers, working in the inner city, said the compulsion to study
Shakespeare and other classic writers "seemed wasteful" when time would
be better spent on basic literary skills."
Couldn't agree more.
Roger
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