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To: Rambi who wrote (11342)	7/9/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Well jheez - we NEED lotsa nukes! Is nothing sacred? Waht if this big hangin asteroid, yada yada yada... About the public school vouchers. The cynic in me immediately saw the fellow's argument as a plea to keep the public school clientele captive. If the system's lousy, then forced attendance is the only way to guarantee its continuity. If I were King... and I could adjudicate this matter, I would allow vouchers to be used for non-public schools. The guy used the argument that (briefly ignoring the church/state problem) public schools were the stewards of educational commonality, the basis for understanding each other. I can see how a parochial school might want to teach creation science and excoriate the current Godless doctrine of slow evolution. The way i would handle this is to leave the school the freedom to teach creationism, but to receive accreditation it needs to teach a core curriculum. In science, this would mean that evolution theory needs to be presented. The teachers will be allowed to append a "we don't think so", but the kids will have to be told "here's a currently popular theory".