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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (234224)	3/5/2002 7:42:01 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This school in Va. is accredited, or so it says. Accreditation for schools that teach hate should not happen. I realize we cannot simply ban them but it would seem they don't deserve accreditation under our discrimination laws. This might solve the vouchers for terrorists problem. I would expect the same scrutiny of Jewish and Christian schools. Maybe the only solution will be for government to be only minimally involved in education. A certain amount of people will choose to radicalize their children's education, no matter what the obstacles, vouchers or not. I'm not sure that isolated instances should control policy. feministcampus.org

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (234224)	3/5/2002 8:31:13 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Do you or do you not favor forcing black children into public schools systems that clearly are failures and have been for years or decades? You're right; there is some baggage. Opposing choice is simply supporting a bloated teachers union that prefers schools to fail because then it has a problem to "solve" by stealing yet more money from taxpayers. You know something? I'll take my chances with those Islamic schools. First of all, if they're bad educationally, most parents will have the brains not to put their kids in them. And I'm a judge (and board member) for the Silicon Valley Science and Engineering Fair. As a consequence of that, I'm often asked to judge local school fairs. One of those that I've judged for several years running is a local private Islamic school. Know something? Those kids are pretty good. In the trophy cases at the entrance to the school, they don't display athletic trophies like most schools. They display academic trophies, including numerous prizes won at the big valley science fair. And if they're trying to raise a bunch of indoctrinated terrorists, they're doing a good job of hiding it.