A high school teacher in East Sacramento has decided she will not teach Shakespeare since her “majority minority students” should not be required to study a “long-dead British guy”. Never mind the fact that “British guy” is one of the finest authors to have written in the English language well-EVER!

We have arrived at a place where the most liberal teachers feel empowered to remove important curricula because they do not see the inherent value of including them. Or, because they do not understand them. Yes, that figured into Dana Dusbiber’s decision to remove the Bard from her curriculum.

“Despite holding an English degree and describing herself as voracious reader, Dusbiber’s desire to purge the dusty old Bard from her classroom is partly based on her own difficulties reading him. She confesses that she has a “personal disinterest in reading stories written in an early form of the English language that I cannot always easily navigate.”

Well in the words of them man himself this highly fed and lowly taught woman should not have the ability to remove things from the curriculum that she lacks an understanding of. Frankly I am disgusted to learn that in the University of California (UC) system one can achieve an English degree without ever reading Shakespeare! At UC Berkeley, yes the renowned and oft referred to home of many an intellectual, you have to read “Becoming Richard Pryor” but, alas not Hamlet.

This clod of wayward marl continued to “justify” her ignorant decision to deprive her students of one of the greatest literary pleasures in the English language by saying that her students should not be exposed to the “Eurocentrism” present in his writing.

She questions why we do not pass along the “oral tradition” of Africa, or stories from Latin America which she views as “equally relevant”. Let me guess, like Latin American fascist demi-God Che Geuvara? Yes, we should have all of the children read the egotistical ravings of a totalitarian madman over the musings on the most central themes across all cultures? Like love, and loss, comedy and tragedy? Do minorities not fall hopelessly in love, only to have it unrequited? Do they not experience the universally tragic loss of a parent, just as Hamlet did? Frankly, having a mother who taught at risk (read largely minority) kids I can tell you they tend to experience that last  one more frequently than their suburban counterparts. But surely, they cannot learn anything from the writings that so many students have found inspiration in for centuries.

Not if you believe this canker-blossom.