The second example is, I agree, ridiculous. Does that have anything to do with the teaching of literature, or was that just another example of a bad teacher. There are a few out there, regardless of our idealism.

Clearly, literature and the humanities is the conduit though which cultural morality is purveyed.

That would be funny, if it weren’t pathetic. Che Guevara T-shirts are “cultural morality”?

And this teacher needs either to be sent back to high school to re-take civics, or fired:

On his first day of eighth grade at the former Holy Name Roman Catholic school last fall, Jeffrey Stone bowed his head, clasped his hands and began to recite the Lord’s Prayer. Within seconds, his teacher chided him: “We don’t do that anymore.”

“I was shocked,” recalled Jeffrey, 13, who played on the Catholic youth basketball team and relied on his school’s pastor-in-residence for advice. “I was like, how am I going to survive?”

It’s none of the teacher’s business if the student prays or not, and it’s certainly way out of line for the teacher to say, “We don’t do that anymore.” Worse, we actually have here a student with morals, who is now going to have them stripped away (well, they will try), to be replaced with, no doubt, “cultural morality.”

Pardon me. I think I’m going to be ill.