[Smartaleck]

"The term "child abuse" gets bandied about far too much as to make it's use nearly meaningless."

When everything is abuse, nothing is abuse. I agree. There's quite few words that have lost their true meaning due to "abuse" of their usage.

I live in the Plano area and the examples cited are an over simplification of what happened. When the issue came to light the dipwad that thought they were avoiding a controversy (atheist parents threatening to sue, whatever) quickly backed down.

Perhaps if people would quit the righteous indignation about everything a school tries to accomplish and stop the lawsuits costs wouldn't continue to go up.

Christians protest every other book used (let's tie everyone up with the evolution-creation debate), blacks think Tom Sawyer is racist, atheists demand Bibles be removed. If the public schools were to address moral/ethics issues some would be suing and outraged because that's a parents job. yadda yadda yadda

[Mmmike]

Christians protest every other book used (let's tie everyone up with the evolution-creation debate), blacks think Tom Sawyer is racist, atheists demand Bibles be removed. If the public schools were to address moral/ethics issues some would be suing and outraged because that's a parents job. yadda yadda yadda

I think it's true that there's practically nothing that everyone agrees about. So ask yourself, why is school actually there? Universal, compulsory state-run schooling, I mean. Did somebody get everybody to agree to it? A nationwide agreement on something, for perhaps the only time in American history? Or does school just present itself that way, so that people will cheerlead for it?