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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
Um...actually I have taught as an adjunct professor at the graduate program level (not as my full time job, just as a sideline.) Not sure what this has to do with education opinions.

As to my "conditions"...I just point out that there are a lot of people who have never served a day of military service who have lots of opinions about how that service should be run. As taxpaying citizens (presuming they pay taxes and are citizens, a big assumption nowadays) they have the right to state those opinions in the realm of public discourse and have them considered. (Yes, technically nontaxpaying noncitizens can yammer also but since they aren't paying the freight who cares.) But I think on a subject like this -- a service that depends on volunteers to staff and run it -- and considering the subject of women in the service in roles exposed to combat is partially an issue because not enough men volunteer -- yeah, I do think that the voices of those who serve should be given priority.

63 posted on 05/04/2003 4:56:07 PM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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To: dark_lord
All occupations require volunteers to run them, unless there are press gangs that I am unaware of for the local 7-11's. Such "conditions," as you manufacture them, are attempts to stifle unwanted opinions that you cannot or will not defeat.

Simply put, the attempt to weight opinions based on your self-serving criteria is a dodge. You certainly wouldn't have been saying that if you hadn't been in the military. It is an attempt to delegitimize other arguments without rebutting them.

But that's fine. I don't expect to see your opinion appear on any primary or secondary education threads, since you don't know what you are talking about, having never taught at those levels...

65 posted on 05/04/2003 6:30:30 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (There's a direct relationship between how tightly one holds a belief and how stupid that belief is)
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