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To: Scarecrow who wrote (26)9/1/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: jlallen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6418
 
Thanks. Well said. JLA



To: Scarecrow who wrote (26)9/1/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: MNI  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6418
 
Scarecrow, try persuasion. You crow to scare me, I am not impressed.

Otherwise you over-interpreted me. I did not say the state knows anything about children. Some teachers do. Some don't. Most do work better if the pupil's parents offer help, or information, or care to ask for information. Others don't. School is an endangerment to children. Maybe we should choose to let our children go by without it. However JLA didn't choose so.

I did never say thoughts were illegal. Where did you take that from? I tried to interpret JLA. Maybe I did it wrong. Okay.

School cannot avoid morals education. Going to school is always morals education. Kids are exposed to the morals claims of their peers, and sometimes to high peer group pressure. Whether morals should or shouldn't be a subject (or done within one) is the question whether morals education should be done openly, giving teachers a say on morals, or as a covered action by your kid's buddies and foes. I think the first option offers more control for parents, not less. Anyway civics is morals, too.

fwiw MNI



To: Scarecrow who wrote (26)9/5/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 6418
 
If Mommy and Daddy think it's ok for little Johnnie to call black children "picaninnies," what should the teachers do? Just curious. I grew up in the deep South when it was ok to call blacks "nigger." Of course, the teachers all did, too. I guess it's PC to stop people from just saying whatever they feel like, right?