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To: Gumlegs

All religious points of view. Practically speaking, however, this area could be honed down to general terms and electives. I am grown up enough to realize there are adherents to different religions, including atheists, all of whom are fellow citizens entitled to an equal hearing when their tax money is spent on education. All of which goes to show public education paid for by the taxpayer is a particularly stupid idea unless one is devoted to mediocrity.


299 posted on 04/14/2006 11:24:07 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Fester: I disagree with the notion of public schools altogether, but as long as they're there, they by law must be open to religious points of view, even when such views happen to impinge upon the sciences.

Gumlegs: All religious points of view, Fester, or just yours?

No need to reply; we already know the answer.

Fester: All religious points of view. Practically speaking, however, this area could be honed down to general terms and electives. I am grown up enough to realize there are adherents to different religions, including atheists, all of whom are fellow citizens entitled to an equal hearing when their tax money is spent on education. All of which goes to show public education paid for by the taxpayer is a particularly stupid idea unless one is devoted to mediocrity.

Suuure, Fester. And by law, too! There's nothing wrong with public education that a few more laws won't fix! And I'm sure you're just rabid to have our kids taught Muslim perspectives in health class. You really want med schools to cover the Vedic implications of drug therapies. And how can the modern American child possibly get along with a thorough grounding in traditional Ojibway perspectives on radio astronomy

302 posted on 04/15/2006 6:38:32 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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