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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (102001)	1/26/2009 4:10:25 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542970

< big edge over the public schools> That's a good observation. I was once lectured by a friend who thought it was the duty of anyone with bright kids to keep them in the public schools to prevent these institutions from being a place where poor kids without options went. All very on noble sounding on his part but he lived in a pretty good neighborhood, as do I. I wondered if he'd be so certain if his kids were getting their butt's kicked everyday for ethnic, religious or other reasons. In the U.S. most people select their neighborhoods, in part, based upon the schools. I know what I'd have done if I'd lived in a place where the schools sucked. Even within a district there are better and worse schools. Our kids are in the better schools. If I got transferred against to a place with lousy schools, I would definitely try to go private, even if it meant Catholic, which I'm not. In general, though, I think this is a band aid and as a nation we'll be better off with good secular schools rather than forcing the best and brightest into religious schools of any particular denomination simply because it is safer.

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (102001)	1/26/2009 5:15:08 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 542970

I don't disagree with you. But remember my question was: Where's the evidence of harm being done to kids coming out of religious schools where they were subjected to school prayer, the Genesis story, etc.?