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To: AndyTheBear
Which is why there needs to be reasonable limits set by society, the school board, and parents. All three of these entities being fallable (though the parents obviously being the primary advocate of their specific children, do have to accept that other parents have different interests)

Isn't that what happened here? Parents decided that the subject matter was inappropriate for their small children and objected?

520 posted on 12/06/2004 3:22:16 AM PST by Amelia
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To: Amelia
Isn't that what happened here? Parents decided that the subject matter was inappropriate for their small children and objected?

No this isn't what happened here. You use the word "Parent" like it is a single all encompassing entity, (lazy thinking, shame on you). Not all the parents complained. But the resulting policy effectivly censors all the children from any facts (not opinions, facts) that happen to be inconvient to not just the complaining parent's own prejudices, but any prejudices that any parent might have in the future no matter how unreasonable. As I infered above, some parents are fallable, thus it is ridiculous to allow every parent the right to censor all discussions in schools. Thus the need for reasonable limits.

527 posted on 12/06/2004 10:29:22 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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