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

["Dale Courtney" <dmcourtn@moscow.com>]

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

Yikes!  Mea culpa!  It was John A. Nagy that I was responding to, not
John Harrell.	

So sorry.

Dale
 
> --- 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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