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- From: rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston)
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.144540.16605@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:45:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.135554.9320@kodak.kodak.com> bryant@neural.Kodak.COM (Steve Bryant) writes:
- >
- >>The point is, I don't want someone teaching my children values that
- >>do not reflect the christian values that this country was founded on.
- >>--
- >
- >I don't want someone teaching my children your christian values, your
- >moslim values, your jewish values, your homosexual values. I don't want
- >any of your values. I'll teach my children my values, thank you.
- >
- >The primary purpose of schools should be a basic education including,
- >reading, writing, and arithmatic. And, should exclude social engineering
- >masquerading itself as education. If you want someone other than
- >yourself to teach your children values, take them to sunday school.
-
- Not only is this foolishness in the extreme, it is completely infeasable.
- I want to teach my children to be cannibles. Do I have the right?
- I want to teach my children that all christians should be shot. Do I have
- right?
- I want to teach my children that America is an evil place, and they should
- strive to overthrow the government by any means necessary. Do I have the
- right?
-
- Part of living in a civilized community is compromise. I give up my
- rights to perform acts harmful to the community, and in return I am
- free of such acts by others. (theoretically speaking, of course) It is,
- IMNSHO, harmfull to our comminty not to teach general tolerance of all
- people, to all people. I feel that EVERY school, public or private, should
- have to teach such things. No one has the right to keep his children
- from becoming tolerant, productive members of society.
-