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It's no small miracle the human race is able to communicate at all lol
Your response my post #348 included a comment about other belief systems and proselytizing. My response to that was to disagree (with that particular comment) and reiterate what I originally said about bus drivers. A small but not irrelevant item- I don't think it's inappropriate to discuss embryonic stem cell research to elementary school kids, I said I felt it was beyond the understanding of most. By 8 or 10 they certainly should be able to grasp some basic facts.
Anyway, to get back to it- my statement about intellectual dishonesty was referring to #356. I'm sorry if you misunderstood. At that point I was getting rather annoyed with the whole thread.
There was a time, and still is fortunately in some rare communities, where the adults imparted knowledge to the children of the community. Nowadays, God forbid anyone should say anything to anyone for fear of PC police or what have you. It is beyond absurd. What's rather telling in this case, is that Mrs. Mayor said she'd made a habit of passing on "factoids" to the kids. In 2 1/2 years of driving the bus, only now was there a problem with that.

A small but not irrelevant item- I don't think it's inappropriate to discuss embryonic stem cell research to elementary school kids, I said I felt it was beyond the understanding of most. By 8 or 10 they certainly should be able to grasp some basic facts.

Well, that's what I said - they wouldn't understand it without including some information best imparted by parents.

Anyway, to get back to it- my statement about intellectual dishonesty was referring to #356. I'm sorry if you misunderstood.

That could be because you didn't address your comment to the author of #356?

There was a time, and still is fortunately in some rare communities, where the adults imparted knowledge to the children of the community. Nowadays, God forbid anyone should say anything to anyone for fear of PC police or what have you.

As a teacher, I certainly have no objection to adults imparting knowledge, with 2 caveats:

1. The knowledge imparted should be age-appropriate, and

2. The knowledge imparted should be consistent with prevailing community standards.*

*This includes both "liberal" and "conservative" information.