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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17722)	4/28/2000 1:33:00 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

First of all Steven, local school districts frequently do establish a core list of books that are presented as required reading in school. If you look across the school districts of the nation you will find a pretty fair cross section and some regulars showing up time and again. I don't think you would find us too far from the goal LRR seeks. I still prefer to keep it open to the local representatives to choose. Having local school boards is one of the few things that allow the flexibility we need in our education system so that it can adapt to changing needs. Did your parents remind you over and over again what to say when someone did something nice for you. Mine did; "Thank You" is a standard term we push to indoctrinate children toward polite rhetoric and behavior. Indoctrination is not all bad. We use it to engender patriotism, loyalty and respect among other positives. I still have to vote against a standard set of literature where in we are pushing the content as a knowledge base that creates a cultural anchor. Of course common knowledge of literature helps to do that, but a nationally required set creates an attitude of "right knowledge," and blocks the intent of literature courses which is to learn to appreciate literature as a disapline. What you guys are pushing is more of a philosophy of life curriculum based on the ideas of certain authors. This is indoctrination and the goal or motive behind it is unclear. I would fight to keep my kids out of such a system. Its a bad format.