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To: antiRepublicrat; wintertime; Old Landmarks
use the power of the state to instill "traditional American values" in the kids using the public school system.

So now you want the power of the state to instill a different set of values in the kids using the government school system? That is what is being done. Have you ever read the NEA literature?

You think the public school can be nonpolitical and not be in the business of forcing someone's particular views of morality? Which morality do you suggest since you support the big government public school which is controlled by leftists with an agenda which is the opposite of that of a large MAJORITY of the parents.

What are you afraid of?

99 posted on 08/23/2010 9:58:58 AM PDT by OriginalIntent (undo all judicial activism and its results)
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To: OriginalIntent
So now you want the power of the state to instill a different set of values in the kids using the government school system?

I don't advocate using the power of the state either way. It is the extreme liberals and conservatives who have tried and done that.

Which morality do you suggest

I suggest that the public schools are no place to teach morality. Differing sense of morality between Christian denominations were a cause for the Protestant conservatives passing that law in the 20s, and the cause for the riots in the 1800s. If even Christians can't be consistent among themselves, there's no way we can teach morality in public schools that will agree with the parents -- who are actually the ones with the right and responsibility to teach morality to their kids.

What are you afraid of?

Big-government extremists from either side of the political spectrum using the government to indoctrinate children according to their world view.

100 posted on 08/23/2010 10:56:50 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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