Today I graded (oh, how I graded!) a variety of discussion board posts, blogs, and assignments for my online course. The common thread was an inability to present and then support with evidence a rational opinion. Instead I got the same tired lame "feelings" about how the world is or should be. One gem (when asked for a rationale for statehood of a nation of one's choice) envisioned a utopian Gaza Strip, complete with women's freedom to wear whatever they wanted, a new Gaza-language, and immigration from all over the world from oppressed peoples. As if Gaza does not have enough problems already!
My sister, in fourth grade, teaches the argument-plus-three-pieces-of-evidence. Evidently this is something that needs to be reconstituted for 13th grade.
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