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To: Christian_Capitalist

Oh, no, I agree the public schools are in many cases a cesspool.


60 posted on 04/15/2010 1:02:09 PM PDT by Judith Anne (2012 Sarah Palin/Duncan Hunter 2012)
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To: Judith Anne
Oh, no, I agree the public schools are in many cases a cesspool.

Statistically, they make the whole "Catholic abuse scandal" look like a tempest in a teapot. That's all I was saying.

Christian schools, whether Catholic or Presbyterian, should certainly do their best to screen out and prosecute these monsters -- because any act of child sexual abuse is a tragedy and a scandal. But when child sexual abuse in the Publik Skools are that bad by comparison, estimates of something like 100 times the abuse rate in the allegedly "troubled" Catholic schools -- then I kinda wonder, should we really focus on bashing eachother's denominational schools? Seems to me there's a much larger elephant in the room, yknow?

It's just that Religious Schools make for more titillating headlines, whereas the Public Schools are basically given a "pass" by the Mainstream Media, and treated as if the institution of public schooling is as fundamentally and unquestionably American as baseball and apple pie.

Sorry I flew off the handle about it.

61 posted on 04/15/2010 1:20:15 PM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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