03-07-2015, 08:24 PM
^ Yeah, I did a little research and that might be the case.
Olio was teaching an elective AP course -- it's college level and tied into the University of Connecticut. The focus is post-modern literature, so gotta think the non-conservative and sometimes provocative works of Vonnegut, Pynchon, Kerouac, Burroughs, Gaddis, Foster, Ginsberg...would be explored. Examining language identity invention in relation to race, sexuality, gender and such is part of the class syllabus.
I could see the poem fitting the context well and being read without causing a shitstorm, IF the course were being taught to college students sitting in a classroom at University of CT. Big difference between college and high school expectations and environments, even with the most advanced high school seniors. If Olio lost sight of that, he really screwed up.
I'm just speculating here.
Olio was teaching an elective AP course -- it's college level and tied into the University of Connecticut. The focus is post-modern literature, so gotta think the non-conservative and sometimes provocative works of Vonnegut, Pynchon, Kerouac, Burroughs, Gaddis, Foster, Ginsberg...would be explored. Examining language identity invention in relation to race, sexuality, gender and such is part of the class syllabus.
I could see the poem fitting the context well and being read without causing a shitstorm, IF the course were being taught to college students sitting in a classroom at University of CT. Big difference between college and high school expectations and environments, even with the most advanced high school seniors. If Olio lost sight of that, he really screwed up.
I'm just speculating here.