Re: "Parental Rights Amendment": Stealth agenda....

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From: Paul Ciszek
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:00

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sockeye <sockeye@rmii.com> writes:

>Bradley Richards wrote:
>> 
>> The answer to the second question,
>> "for what purpose" is quite simple: to promote the long-term health of society.
>> In that sense, when people go off and home-school their children, it is
>> unquestionably a prerogative of society to ensure that those children will
>> receive an education which will ensure that they will be productive members of
>> said society.

>Sez who? "Society"? Who is this "society"? The government? Do parents
>count as "society"? What is this "education" anyway? Functional
>literacy? An acceptance of an officially approved hagiography in place
>of history? How far can "society" go to ensure that the child is
>"educated"? Can s/he be held in school indefinitely if s/he does not
>"learn"? Can s/he demand early release if s/he learns quickly? 

The original purpose of mandatory public education, long since forgotten,
was LITERACY.  It was believed that democracy would be a disaster unless
the voters could read and write.  I, for one, still believe this.  If it
were up to me, no school district would be allowed to teach anything else
unless it could demonstrate that it was accomplishing this primary goal.

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From: pciszek@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek)
Subject: Re: "Parental Rights Amendment": Stealth agenda....
Date: 1996/11/30
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