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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (14420)	12/23/1997 9:12:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Good morning Del! Why has no one brought a suit against your school? Why haven't you? I find it very difficult to believe that no one in the community has called in the ACLU on this situation! Sounds like one they'd love. And I bet your community is an anomaly rather than the norm. This past week down the road in Lancaster (rural community outside Dallas), a judge had the ill-conceived idea of requiring a child who'd been in a fight to attend church for eight weeks as part of his probation. Stunning-and it took the parents all of five minutes to call the news and the ACLU--and now they're talking "settlement". The judge retracted the requirement, of course. (Who KNOWS what he was thinking!) There's no way that your school would get away with that except by permission of the community. Not a whistle-blower in the bunch??? Get busy. As for not forbidding Christian music---well-that's exactly what I hear you and Christine doing in the educational setting. If Christine thinks Christian music is confusing then so would Muslim be -and anything else that smacks of religion. And my point was that both sides are extreme---I don't disagree with you that some would object to the performance of Muslim music--that's what makes me so sad. I am not arguing as a religious person, but as a musician who deplores what we are excluding in our strange quest for inclusion. I'm not sure what you mean by religious music being sung in cathedrals, for obviously it is. But that doesn't address my concern about removing it from the educational sphere, which leaves a gaping hole in exposure to the greatest music of western civilization. You ask if I claim the only worthwhile Christmas music is Christian--surely not the only, but most of the best, yes. Jingle Bell Rock versus Vivaldi's Gloria hmmmm-not much of a contest... There's the Nutcracker Suite. ANd I'm sure others--but the preponderance I'd guess would have a religious emphasis. All I wish is that both sides were reasonable and open, and that our children could be exposed to the best we have to offer in all areas. This isn't limited only to music; we limit the literature in our schools also for the same reasons. Saturday night, we attended Mozart's Die Zauberflote. Talk about a feminist nightmare!!! But it doesn't hinder my enjoyment of Mozart's genius for harmony and structure, or the wonderful staging and spectacle. Teach in context. Teach our children to think and discriminate and enjoy many different cultures, including the Christian legacy. Why are we so afraid? Ignorance will not equip anyone in a search for truth. And no fair bringing up the Chipmunks. And then there's Grandma Got Run OVer By a Reindeer...just can't argue with real musical genius.