RE: 7th Graders Islam Studies Spark Hate Mail, Lawsuits

[John Harrell <johnbharrell@yahoo.com>]

Methinks that Dale has the Johns mixed-up. Oh well, it happens...

John Harrell

--- Dale Courtney <dmcourtn@moscow.com> wrote:
> John Harrell writes:
> 
> > After stripping away the hysterical and ludicrous it looks 
> > like a noble attempt is being made by the public schools to 
> > help children better understand that there are other 
> > religions and cultures in the world. 
> 
> Are there any schools that *don't* do this?
> 
> The article makes it appear that you can teach world religions from a
> generic, detached, morally neutral position. No subject can be so taught
> -- every subject has an epistemological starting point that is not
> morally neutral. The fact that our government schools think they can is
> both self-deception and public-deception. 
> 
> > That is one reason why 
> > my children attend public schools. Sincerely, John A. Nagy Moscow
> 
> No one has ever said that a parent doesn't have a right to send his
> children to school wherever he chooses.
> 
> The discussion has been that is not the constitutional responsibility of
> the civil government to educate our children -- it is the parent's
> responsibility to "outsource" that however so he sees fit -- homeschool,
> co-ops, institutions, boarding schools, etc.
> 
> Dale Courtney
> Moscow, ID
> 


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