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To: one_less who wrote (17601)	4/26/2000 12:56:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't know. It's not so much that I'd forbid the posting of "Don't steal" (never had much use for the archaism of the King James Version). But that I'd be mighty antsy about the posting of commandments 1 to 4, which are in my esteem specifically religious articles. Ones that would be approved by Jews, Christians and Muslims but would be inappropriate to Hindus, Buddhists and the odd druid. As for your warnings about required literature ... I am sensitive to the fact that this can be a bone of contention. It's not a perfect solution, but perhaps a Constitutional model is used wherein the list is arrived at by an electoral process involving the nation's school boards and PTAs. A book could be nominated for addition or deletion by proceedings similar to those in place to amend the Constitution. Alternatively, a list of books could be compiled with an option of signing off on 80% of the books in the list. That way each school can choose the least appropriate or most incorrect (!) books from the list and exclude its clientele (students) from having to read and report on them. I don't know. It's an idea I'm kicking around. How would you address the need for literacy with a capital L?