my suggestion he be involved
in answering the attacks on whole language in which he said if we "educaionalists"
didn't respond ourselves we deserved what we were getting. I didn't respond
because it sounded to much like the Jews were getting what they deserved
when they didn't respond strongly enough to Hitler's anti-semitism. Noe of
us deserve the treatment whole language is getting in the press and the
political arena. And we must all recognize that in an atmosphere in which
political decisions marginalize professional and academic debate none of us
is safe.
Ken Goodman