Re: back off, man

["Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com>]

Doug wrote,
"In response to Sunil, I am willing to make a deal. I will start calling 
them public schools in this forum, schools belong to us, the people, if you 
all will agree that we, the people, have the right and authority to close 
them down if we the people decide to do this in a law-abiding fashion.
Deal?"

Doug, I agree that the people should be able to change their institutions if 
they wish; how easy or difficult it is to change them can vary, but I agree 
with the idea that if the people in a democracy wish to shut down the public 
schools, they can do so, if they can muster the votes.

Whether they should do so is where we obviously differ.  I don't believe 
that the public schools are religious, and I am committed to the idea that 
they should exist.  I believe that public education is a civic good, by 
whatever mish-mash of standards I apply.  My wife and I intend to be 
involved in our children's education.  If we feel that the public schools 
are failing us, if we cannot work towards fixing the problems, then we will 
probably look at private schools.
Obviously this is an area where you and I can never agree, since you believe 
the public schools are fundementally flawed, at the very least.  I expect 
that this is an area that will continue to be hotly contested in Moscow; the 
question is, Can you muster the votes?  Chuck Pezeshki, I think, is correct 
in arguing that people who agree with you are far more organized right now 
than people who agree with me.  We have interesting times ahead of us, don't 
you think?


"And the verse you cite is the reason we don't have our kids in the
government schools, but we do pay our taxes. Caesar has his image on our 
money, so it is lawful for us to pay taxes to him, even if he is being 
unjust. After all, it takes a pillage! But our children have God's image on 
them -- and we render to God what is God's."

I like your "[i]t takes a pillage!" line.  I knew I shouldn't use Bible 
verses with a preacher...

I still would like to know more about the number of people who moved here to 
put their kids in Logos.  How many regular Vision 2020 writers did so?

Sunil




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