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• W2994451713 abstract "The protruding nail gets hammered down --Japanese proverb The polarized political mood engendered by the most sharply partisan Presidential election campaigns in recent memory has had an especially deleterious effect on the image of public education. (1) This increased scrutiny has largely fallen on the shoulders of rank and file teachers who now face the most precarious moment in terms of job security since the height of the McCarthyite movement of the 1950s. While this trend has scarcely been reported in the national mainstream media, a close monitoring of local newspapers from across the country uncovers numerous disturbing incidents. For example, Madrid (2004) has detailed how a drama teacher in Paradise Valley, Arizona, was fired after a parent complaint about a skit her students wrote and performed about the Holocaust. In April 2006, Sidney McGee, an teacher from Frisco, Texas, was fired after parent complaints about the nude art that her fifth grade class viewed while on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art (Pilkington, 2006). More recently, Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, has been the subject of furious debates in school board meetings (Libin, 2007). These stories and others like them lead to a startling conclusion: it is remarkably easy to lose one's job merely for attempting to teach one's subject in a public school in the United States today. In this article, I will examine this dark, telling picture of the teaching profession in the 21st century through the explosive reaction to the use of Michael Moore's provocative documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 in American classrooms. I will argue that the concerted campaign against the use of the film by teachers reveals the activities of a complex network of parents, advocacy groups, and right-wing media pundits that has been organized specifically to challenge the curricular choices made by classroom practitioners. This network has, in a few cases, lobbied successfully with school administrations for disciplinary action against individual teachers. The parents' groups at the center of many of the cases I will cite often act as front-line footsoldiers for deep-pocketed national organizations toiling away in the background. The most well-established of these include Citizens for Excellence in Education, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, and the Concerned Women of America led by Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim LaHaye, who has become a media star in religious conservative circles with his apocalyptic Left Behind book series. Conservative organizations oriented toward--in David Horowitz's (2006) ironic words--getting politics out of abound in the culture of education today. Horowitz, a former sixties student radical turned Fox News Channel contributor, is a major figure in this movement, having started Parents and Students for Freedom (PSAF), a K-12 adjunct of a group oriented toward higher education, in August 2004. In the past three years, PSAF has sponsored legislation in 23 states aimed at instituting an Academic Bill of Rights in high schools and colleges (McKenna, 2006). In the end, the case of Fahrenheit 9/11 in the classroom indicates the ways in which this new network has destabilized the ordinary channels of communication in schools, exerted pressure on school administrations, and created a chilling effect on the teaching practice. A Historical Sketch of Freedom freedom has long been held as a sacrosanct principle in the realm of academia. Philosophers such as Locke (1693/1995) and Diderot (1753/2003) spoke eloquently to the Enlightenment conceptions of intellectual autonomy as a vital concern for pluralistic democracy. Mill (1859/2003) further expressed the need within such a society for engagement in multiple points of view, even deliberate falsehoods, without fear of suppression: But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. …" @default.
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• W2994451713 title "Fahrenheit 9/11 in the Classroom" @default.
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