Re: [LM_NET] Question: Magazine Challenge

[jschaffner <jschaffner@IGC.ORG>]

I have received the Teaching Tolerance magazine for years. It is free to 
all teachers. It has wonderful material on how to teach children about 
racial equality, religious tolerance and acceptance of various family 
configurations. It is produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center which 
has an outstanding history of helping to stop hate violence by the KKK 
and other hate mongering groups. I am not familiar with its Intelligence 
Report, but I cannot imagine that it does anything but track and expose 
hate groups. Maybe the teachers mentioned only gave it a cursory look 
and misinterpreted the content. I would urge them to take a harder look 
and to go to the organization's website to see what is really being said:
http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp


Judith Schaffner
Coordinator
NYC DOE
Office of Library Services
jschaff3@schools.nyc.gov

Susan Speranza wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with "Teaching Tolerance" and the "Intelligence
> Report" put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center?
>
> Remarkably, two of my teachers thought that one issue of the IR was
> promoting hate groups; one of the teachers called the IR propaganda
> and want it banned from the library.
>
> Any comments or insights into this group and their magazine would be
> most appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Susan Speranza
> Library Media Specialist
> Bellows Falls Union High School
> Bellows Falls, VT 05143
> castleriggpekes@gmail.com
>
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