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To: SLB
In the real world, the parents who objected to this would simply take their kids out and find another school.

The market would decide if this school stayed open.

It just occurred to me that many parents remain willfully ignorant of what goes on in their schools BECAUSE they think they have no choice. Better to whistle past the graveyard and hope for the best rather than to dig and find out.

Since there ARE parents who think this stuff is OK (I would assume that some of the faculty are parents themselves), I wonder how this school wouild fare in a free marketplace.

Alas, we'll never find out.

3 posted on 09/27/2005 3:15:12 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

But individuals such as these parents do not have the right to control a public space unless they can do so through official channels, i.e. by asserting the will of the majority. Otherwise, if a parent wants to shield his child's vision, that is his responsibility.

This is the real world in which market principles operate. Home-schooling or private schooling are the only options for parents with different standards than the library's.


5 posted on 09/27/2005 3:46:43 AM PDT by march violet
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To: Izzy Dunne

I would assume that some of the faculty are parents themselves),

Don't assume every teacher would find this acceptable. There's too much of "if it's true in one place, it must be true for all" that goes around. Just ask the liberals who assume that all the time.


13 posted on 09/27/2005 5:47:28 AM PDT by moog
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To: Izzy Dunne

It just occurred to me that many parents remain willfully ignorant of what goes on in their schools BECAUSE they think they have no choice.
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Don't forget the uninvolved parents who only enter their children's school to enroll them.

Remember the Columbine shooting? The parents didn't even know their kid was making bombs in the garage.

I still think homeschooling is the way to go, if possible.


53 posted on 09/27/2005 8:26:40 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear
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