I have struggled to write this blog post. This is mainly due to the horrific acts of the author of this week’s reading, Benjamin Levin. The prompt of this blog post revolves around the ways in which curriculums are formulated “in large measure by other considerations—ideology, personal values, issues in the public domain, and interests. Curriculum decisions are often part of a much larger public debate that often extends beyond education to larger questions of public goods”. With this in mind, I can only ask why we, as future educators, would be using materials that have been created by a man who took advantage of those who we are meant to protect and educate. It should not matter what the material contains. Our values revolve around the protection and support of children, and these values should have been taken into consideration when using work from Benjamin Levin. The fact that this man took advantage of children in some of the most horrendous ways possible is disgusting, and I am appalled by the fact that his work was used in this class. I as a future educator cannot, in good conscious, look at this week’s reading and embrace it, nor can I reflect upon the words that have come out of this vile man. I have nothing to learn from a man who has destroyed the childhood’s of children and have robbed them of safety and trust in such an abhorrent manner. Sexual predators, let alone those who have preyed upon the innocence of children, should have no voice in matters regarding education, especially in our classroom.