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At UCLA, students of an upper-level class on literacy theory must complete 30 hours of community service at an underperforming school. Sounds great, right? Until you find out that the after-school program, called the "Fifth Dimension," invites children to write letters to a dual-gendered, multi-ethnic entity named El Maga (the wizard), that the kids are encouraged to "emote culturally" no matter how inappropriate their ideas or language (references to violence and drugs are just fine), and that ...

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