[Fan of Fiat]

Private school: They can do what they want. If the parents don't like it, pull them from the school.

[The Lumster]

Private school - they can do whatever they want and whatever the parents will allow.

Perhaps a Christian school will schedule a field trip to stand with the sidewalk counselors.

[presidio9]

ping

[NautiNurse]

I'm curious to know whether parents signed a permission slip for this field trip. btw--annual tuition/board is $33K.

[moonman]

I'm originally from a Philly suburb. This is total craziness. Abort the teacher!

[dcnd9]

WRITE TO THE PRESS ABOUT THIS AS WELL AS....TAKE YOUR PICK!!

Address:
Solebury School
6832 Phillips Mill Rd
New Hope, PA 18938-9682

Phone/Fax Numbers:

Phone: 215.862.5261
Admission Office Fax: 215.862.3366
Business Office Fax: 215.862.1870
Alumni/Development Office Fax: 215.862.2783

Admissions Office Admissions@solebury.org

Denise DiFiglia, Director of Admission
denise@solebury.org

Janice Poinsett, Associate Director of Admission
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Bert Johnson, Assistant Director of Admission
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Alumni/Development

Linda Brown, Director of Advancement
Linda@solebury.org

Renee LaPorte, Assistant Director of Development
Renee@solebury.org

Peter Pearson, Major Gifts Officer
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Beverly Berkeley, Director of Public Relations
beverly@solebury.org

Cyd Fenimore, Parent Relations and Auction Coordinator
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Pam Lyons Administrative Assistant
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Administrative Offices 215.862.5261

John Brown, Head of School
jb@solebury.org

Geoff Tilden, Assistant Head of School
Geoff@solebury.org

Steve Buteux, Director of Studies
asbuteux@solebury.org

Annette Miller, Dean of Students
Annette@solebury.org

Bill Christy, Assistant Dean of Students
Billc@solebury.org

Scott Eckstein, Director of Middle School
scotte@solebury.org

Business Office

Doug Haigh, Director of Finance
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Patti Finn, Assistant Business Manager
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http://www.solebury.com/pages/contact.cfm

[YellowRoseofTx]

As part of an “activism class,”
he did not want them to become involved in activism,

It was a field trip as part of an activism class, but he doesn't want them to become involved in activism? Typical double speak of liberals. It makes no sense whatsoever.

[sr4402]

Checked there mission statement:

Our strong belief in informality, diversity, and the importance of mutual respect between teacher and student helps build a strong community.

... We have bodies

Yes, it's apparent from their mission statement.

[A. Pole]

Private schools bump

[Graymatter]

Nice area, almost moved there ten years ago, they have this ultra-cool island in the middle of the river with the remains of a house that a flood wrecked. Then I got to thinking about how fast nature can snatch things away.
Looks like they now have a school for that too. :(

[Global2010]

Balaced would have been visiting the Abortion Clinic and then visiting a Pro Life Counseling (clinic).

[ruffedgrouse]

"As part of an “activism class,” students at Solebury School, a private school near Philadelphia, were taken to an abortion clinic, donned vests worn by abortion staff, and helped to escort women into the building. "


Obviously this is a school for well-off "red diaper babies." This is the sort of "field trip" the students' parents would have expected; I'm sure they approve.

[XR7]

Were the students allowed to hold the babies?

[FreedomProtector]

As part of an “activism class,” students at Solebury School, a private school near Philadelphia, were taken to an abortion clinic, donned vests worn by abortion staff, and helped to escort women into the building.

...having spent a couple of mornings holding a sign in front an abortion clinic there are some images burned into my head forever....backdrop/setting would make even the best Hollywood producer envy.....pro-life folks praying constantly, holding signs, walking to avoid loitering laws, their breath turning white in the cold winter air, sounds from footsteps and catholics praying the rosary, Police with barricades indicating where pro-life may be and not be, standing still as statues almost in the posture of a Roman guard...

The real life story includes characters hired by villans: "pro-choice" death-sorts (escorts), wearing yellow tee-shirts with "pro-choice escort" screen printed in black across the front over the top of warm clothes to avoid the biting cold winter air, to help people feel comfortable walk their baby to its death. The pro-death escorts purpose is aid in walk by heroic pro-life servants unselfishly giving their Saturday morning to plead with them offering to will help them, food, shelter, baby supplies whatever they needed, echoing the words of their conscience telling them that this isn't right. The entire purpose of the pro-death escorts was to take the edge off their conscience, make people feel comfortable doing what the laws written on their heart press upon them is clearly wrong. Having been there and witnessed this, I cannot imagine this being an assignment for a school class....escorting someone to suck ones own child up in a fancy vacuum cleaner, or to burn the skin and poison ones own child with salt solution, or crush the brain and snap the spine of one's own child....this is simply unfathamable barbaric educational conditioning.

In his book, "The Abolition of Man"[ Abolition of Man Chapter 1, Abolition of Man Chapter 2, Abolition of Man Chapter 3 ], he tackles the subject of how education develops ones sense of morality. While doing so he provides various proofs of the doctrine of objective value, the idea that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false... Lewis calls this objective value, [the laws written on our conscience] the "Tao". [In a seperate book, Lewis provides a philosophical proof that those laws of objective value imply a Lawgiver.] A couple of notes:

St Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love which is appropriate to it. Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought. When the age for reflective thought comes, the pupil who has been thus trained in 'ordinate affections' or 'just sentiments' will easily find the first principles in Ethics; but to the corrupt man they will never be visible at all and he can make no progress in that science. Plato before him had said the same.

Hence the educational problem is wholly different according as you stand within or without the Tao. For those within, the task is to train in the pupil those responses which are in themselves appropriate, whether anyone is making them or not, and in making which the very nature of man consists. Those without, if they are logical, must regard all sentiments as equally non-rational, as mere mists between us and the real objects. As a result, they must either decide to remove all sentiments, as far as possible, from the pupil's mind; or else to encourage some sentiments for reasons that have nothing to do with their intrinsic 'justness' or 'ordinacy'. The latter course involves them in the questionable process of creating in others by 'suggestion' or incantation a mirage which their own reason has successfully dissipated.

The Conditioners, therefore, must come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure. I am not here speaking of the corrupting influence of power nor expressing the fear that under it our Conditioners will degenerate. The very words corrupt and degenerate imply a doctrine of value and are therefore meaningless in this context. My point is that those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse.

Here the educational system is deliberately violating the laws written on the conscience of its own students, and trying to replace them with the false values that man is nothing more then an intellectual animal and the false value that the purpose in life is to save ones self by directing future evolution. Hence, according to the conditioned false values murdering innocent [ones own] flesh and blood can be 'good'.

In the story of the real-life drama which takes place in front of an abortion clinic everyday, there is a chapter I will never forget.... As in any good story, the plot is also the story of human action from which moral and ethical issues cannot be separated...the moral plot drives the story....except this wasn't fiction, this was real life,....it is just surreal being there, one feels like one is in a movie with all of the suspense surrounding a murder plot, but one standing on a sidewalk of real life. Having been an eyewitness to the drama which takes place every day in front of an abortion clinic, there is a moment cemeted in my mind forever.... a boy pulling and tugging on a girls arm to the 'clinic' with tears streaming down her face....at that point nearly everything was quiet, her sobs heard above the footsteps and the catholic rosary, ....when I see the door open to the clinic in my head all I picture a precipice looking into an abyss behind the door...the moment is almost frozen in time I can't imagine the next moment any further ...the picture of tears streaming down that girls face and that boy tugging on her arm pulling her to the death of her/their baby is cemented in my mind forever.

To transition from that moment to reading a statistics like an abortion occurs on average every 23 seconds in America...it is unbearable--to try to even think of comprehending all of the personal stories behind each 23 sec tragedy of human life...these aren't just numbers, they are real people, walking on real sidewalks, with real babies and real personal stories, crying real tears with real hurting souls and real wounded spirits.

To transition from that moment, to those aweful statistics, to the unfathonable truth of the complete atoning of the work of Christ which fully accounted for the weight of all of real human sin and tragedy rejecting the Creator of the all of life--it is uncontainable joy. Joy, joy, joy, tears of uncontainable joy.

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[EndWelfareToday]

If you love your children you will put aside your desire for material possessions and immediate self-gratification then educate them yourself.

As seen in this thread NO ONE will love your children as much as you do. Stop trusting moronic moonbats to bring your children up as you think they should be brought up.

JMHO

[little jeremiah]

Very interesting discussion on the thread. And of course a private school has the right to indoctrinate skulls full of mush into the lie that abortion is a sacred right (rite?). But we have the right to condemn such indoctrination as evil.

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[unspun]

No morals, no shame, no conscience, no heart.

[editor-surveyor]

What is the name of that 'private' school, Satan's school for girls?

[G Larry]

BUMP!