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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Subject: Re: Why can't the liberals just admit that public education
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:59:56 GMT
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- In article <20027@mindlink.bc.ca>, Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian) writes:
- |> Herman Rubin concludes a recent posting in this tedious thread by observing:
- |>
- |> Most of those who adopt the current "liberal" position believe that they have
- |> the right to impose their morality on us, just as most of those who adopt the
- |> current "conservative" position, or the current "Perotist" position. So I
- |> will conclude with a quote, source unknown:
- |>
- |> The greatest immorality of all is to force one's morality on another.
- |>
- |> Herman, you've been spending too much time online instead of upholding high
- |> standards among your stats students. Your quote tells us we're all a bunch of
- |> Bad People because we impose our morality on drug peddlers, murderers, wife
- |> beaters, inside traders and other people whose values we don't agree with.
- |>
- |> And what's this all got to with education?
-
- Because our schools are being used as a vehicle for imposing that morality
- instead of an instrument of learning as we are told when our tax money is
- sent to them. If, without the loss of equal economic support, we could choose
- where our children are sent, then such "morality" education would be fine.
- But as things stand, the tax system prevents parents from choosing where their
- children go. Parents that want to keep their children away from any mention of
- sex have their children given condoms in school, creationists are forced to
- send their children to schools that teach evolution, parents that think the use
- of drugs is perfectly acceptable have their children automatically taught that
- drugs are bad without even being exposed to the scientific evidence so they
- can make up their minds, parents who feel that homosexuality is a sin, have
- their children taught otherwise. What gives the majority the right to force
- these views on the minority by using the SCHOOLS?
-
- Jason W. Solinsky
-