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- From: bryant@neural.Kodak.COM (Steve Bryant)
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
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- In article <1992Dec31.144540.16605@news.columbia.edu>, rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
- >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.
-
- So schools HAVE to teach morality. Who's morality? Yours or mine?
- Once you have given away your control to the school to teach
- morality what's to prevent them from teaching your children intolerance?
- Which they do in the extreme. By the way, I am absolutely in favor of
- tolerance, I just don't believe that my children are being tought
- tolerance nor is it the schools job to do this. It is ultimately my
- resposability to teach my children morality. Obviously, this does not
- happen in a vacuum. Every social interchange my child has impacts
- his/her code of ethics. But, should it be the stated job function
- of the public school system to teach my children their sense of
- morality? And I say no to this. Let the schools teach the basics,
- science, math, reading, and I will teach my children morality.
-