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To: CharlesWayneCT

But it is stupid to say that only a parent could teach anything to a child.
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This is a straw man. I have never said this. I can’t defend a straw man argument of your creation.


64 posted on 12/23/2012 1:58:23 PM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime

I apologize. I mistook “institutional school” for “a place outside of the home where children are sent to learn”.

I think now that you meant “public school”, and that you did not consider the Catholic school system institutional, or other private schools “institutional”, since I see in some other responses to me that you support parents sending children to schools of learning run by others, which many of us would call “institutes of learning”, or “institutions” for short.

Now I still disagree with you, in that I believe public schools do teach things, just as I believe private schools of various types teach things. I think you really think they teach as well, because you have expressed concern about what they teach.

I would never have argued with someone saying they didn’t like what kids learned in public school; I actually rarely argue with people who call me names or attack me for sending my kids to public school, because they mean well, even if they are actually being condescending. Of course, I don’t worry about the opinions that anonymous internet posters have of me, which makes it easier to turn the other cheek when they insult me.


69 posted on 12/23/2012 5:21:15 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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