Political Correctness In The Classroom

Schools in Canada have recently become the battleground for the fight over how much political correctness should be allowed to infiltrate grade school classrooms. One can take two sides when dealing with such issues as violent toys, "good clean fun", the benefits and disadvantages of political correctness.          There is much controversy about violent toys which are far from being considered politically correct. The toys that enter many grade school classrooms throughout the country may also …

…be decent human beings who can form their own opinions.         In our multicultural, racially diverse, opinionated nation we, as teachers, parents and students need to adjust the grade school curriculum in order to keep up with the changes that are taking place every day. Main goal for the educators and teachers it to challenge students to think, reason and to consider the views of others and eventually come to their own conclusions on political correctness.