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Created: August 31, 2002
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Teaching Tolerance?
or Teaching Fear of Standing Up for Rights?

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, August 2002.
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This essay is based on an article to which Susan alerted me: Lesson Plans for Sept. 11 Offer a Study in Discord By Kate Zernike. New York Times. August 31, 2002.

There have been several articles and news bites lately on how we shall commemorate September 11. One article in the New York or the Los Angeles Times last week deplored the portrayal on television of the horrible images captured as the Twin Towers collapsed. Enough of displaying horror, the author pled. This is a time to heal, to restore, to discover our shared humanity, not to inflame passions. I knew I should have put the article up, but there was so little time this first week of school.

And then this morning, before I'd even tackled the New York Times on the kitchen table, Susan e-mailed me with the alert to this article which awaits me. Time for us to consider the theoretical implications of what September 11 meant to us and to our nation, and to the rest of the world, too.