One Randy Barron, chair of the NM Advisory Council on Arts Education, wrote an Op-Ed piece for today’s Journal arguing that Gov. Richardson got it wrong. Arts education, Barron says, is basic, not "special."
Makes sense to me, so I follow with sympathy for six paragraphs. Until Barron commits this:
"The arts support multiple learning modalities and multiple intelligences, inviting more students to demonstrate understanding in ways that move beyond simple verbal-linguistic or logical-mathematical measurements and into holistic comprehension of core concepts."
You don’t say.
What was wrong with English and why did he abandon it?
I want to support public education, but educators always write this way. And every time I read this pretentious, impenetrable gobbledygook, I break down, torn between regurgitating my lunch and crying buckets for the crime perpetrated against the Mother Tongue.
And I wonder – can somebody who writes like this think?
Then again, my holistic comprehension of core concepts may be..er...screwed up.