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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Have your parents told you any horror stories about what goes on in their schools?

Yes. Administrators and politicians who don't understand teaching enact some pretty dumb policies.

Does any of their curriculum tend to erode the morality of their students?

No. Although calculus eroded my cruising time after school. And Orwell made me spend a lot of time raging against statism.

Do they bear some responsibility?

Yes. They are responsible for a lot of kids that they helped. Including me.

My parents would never seek to weaken someone's faith.

You stand on a shaky platform when you seek to paint everyone with one brush.
28 posted on 07/05/2009 8:24:05 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: mysterio
My parents would never seek to weaken someone’s faith.
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I don't know your parents or their situation, but I can speak **generally** about godless government education.

In my homeschool, when we read literature, I would point out to the children which of the Ten Commandments had been broken that caused the fictional conflict upon which the story was built. In fact, except for the genre of “Man Against Nature” it's darn hard to write fiction that does not include the breaking of a Commandment!

Imagine that being taught in government school! Fat Chance!

Yet, to ignore even this **one** tiny aspect of including the Commandments in classroom lectures leaves the child woefully poorly educated! Teaching the child to evaluate literature in a Ten Commandments-free vacuum weakens a child's faith!

This is merely one example among possibly thousands in which learning how to think godlessly weakens faith.

The above is a **general** statement about education. I don't know your parents or their situation and have no comment about them.

33 posted on 07/05/2009 8:37:43 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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