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To: Neocon who wrote (48388)	8/2/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

OK, let me see if I'm understanding you, and please forgive me if my splitting annoys you, it's just the way I think: 1. By "the canon" you mean the historical and literary texts that are used to teach history and English, right? (Or those classes called something like "Western Civilization). You think that certain texts should be kept, and others think that certain texts should be abandoned, and others substituted, e.g., books written by women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians, and you don't like that. 2. You don't like deconstructionist techniques being used in history and English classes. 3. You don't think that grade school students should be taught certain things about the Founding Fathers, e.g., that many of them had slaves, or that some of them may have fathered illigitimate children. 4. You don't like sex ed. classes that teach how to use contraceptives, or teach that homosexuality is a normal variation of human sexuality. 5. You think that there should be benedictions at commencements. Is this what you mean by "cultural continuity"?