According to Thomas Mattarocci's handout - John Ruszkiewicz "calls into question the right of the teacher to make their own political views those that the student is subjected to in order to learn how to write."
For Min-Zhan Lu and others who argue for a more politicized classroom, this statement assumes that any teacher could walk into a classroom completely free of political agenda in the first place, and that, by not openly confronting subjective leanings, the student is more likely to assume that whatever the instructor says is absolute truth - indicating on a more subtle, therefore incidious way that the student's beliefs are wrong. On the other hand, if the teacher is openly political and encourages the same throughout the class, students may feel more confident in their own agency.
On a lighter note - I really like the concept of following our own writing process as Ruszkiewicz describes in his "Back to the Source" essay - this is another good argument for portfolios in the classroom, especially digital portfolios (even for the teachers).
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