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Remember when I was reading that terrible allegory and the introduction said I was free to agree or disagree? Well, it turns out I wasn’t. I wrote my paper, and, like an obedient child, praised the wonders of the new ELL program. Another teacher in my department, however, did not. She wrote a criticism of the system and the new proposed program (not anything nasty or rude or hostile, just a critical analysis), and she just got her paper returned with a nice little note to the tune of, “As it turns out, we don’t think you fully understood the course material. Please reread some material until you DO understand it and then rewrite your paper.” In other words, “Tell us what we want to hear or you won’t have a job next year, sucka.” Cool. We’re supposed to teach the kids to think for themselves, or something like that.