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To: Rambi who wrote (26787)	12/10/1998 8:23:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) of 108807

penni, The school issue is one of choice and control over your/my child's education. Since the federal government has taken control of schools by linking block grants to states for education to certain required curriculum it has been a battle to keep local control of local schools. It's the NEA in washington, a powerful lobby, that is forcing the objectionable material as well as local school boards and individual teachers. The parents should have the final say in their child's education, not some obscure bureaucrat in washington with a hidden agenda. One only need look at the failing of the public schools to see the failure of the federal governments intervention. I don't think it is important if every parent agrees on every issue, the parents should have a greater voice. If something is highly objectionable to some is there any harm in finding another book? After all, are they teaching reading or Egyptian worship? Reading of course! I think the horrors of WWII and the holocaust can wait until high school. Even then many would still be very upset by graphic pictures and movies. I have watched some discovery documentaries and it's very upsetting watching a nazi shoot several people in the back of the head, real footage saved from german archives. I would rather have not seen it at all. What happened to O'Hair anyhow? Did she have a death bed conversion? I heard she wanted to die in secret so no christian could claim she accepted the Lord at the last. I thought a lot about the school issue before my daughter entered. I decided to let her go through public school. They have the most facilities. I did not want to deprive her of the social benefits of school, especially being an only child. Friendships formed in school are very important and can last well past graduation. I think the best friends I ever had were my school friends. I also did not want to shelter her and then have her grow up with no understanding of so many issues. I am explaining as we go and will keep doing so. So far it has worked out fine, but 2nd grade is an innocent time. I don't know the parents or the aids patient, so it's hard to make a judgement. I know a christian who's brother has aids and the aids brother avoids the christian at all costs and wants no relationship with him. The christian brother will accept his brother as he is but the brother will not have it unless the christian brother denounces his beliefs about homosexuality. There are two sides. Bob

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