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Controversy erupted yesterday at a local elementary school when a parent complained that his daughter’s answer had unfairly been marked wrong on a third-grade arithmetic test. Ms. Regina Denary, a teacher at Blandville Elementary School in Blandville, gave a grade of 90% to a pupil identified by the school administration as “Student X,” claiming that the pupil’s answer of 37 to the problem of 12 × 8 was “wrong.” The father, identified as “Mr. X,” complained to the school administration that Ms. Denary had established a regime of totalitarian microfascist Orwellian hegemony that stigmatized students with “deviant” ideas by insisting on a univocal “truth” that denies the irreducibly individual experience of the student. The school administration upheld the complaint, and Ms. Denary was reprimanded and ordered to “teach the controversy.”

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  1. Clay Potts says:

    Isn’t this the same school district which had 364 Valedictorians at this years graduation? Three hundred and sixty-four sets of parents were arrested and taken to jail for violently defending their child’s right to be the first to speak. Three hundred and sixty-four students fell into a weepy heap crying for their mommy’s.

  2. May Ms. Denary’s error be a lesson to us all — a lesson that does not, of course, stigmatize anyone with ‘deviant’ ideas by insisting on a univocal ‘truth,’ but instead affirms the irreducibly individual experience of us all, including, er . . . Ms. Denary’s own experience of her experience . . .

    Jeffery Hodges

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