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Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V3 #627
there were a couple posts in my last digest that basically said "school is
not the place to teach religion, but teaching *about* religion, and
perspectives and how religion and politics and all the factors behind a
culture affect the people and influence their decisions is what should be
done."
well, that is what *i* meant by teaching an "unbiased history". i don't know
what everyone else has their knickers in a twist over. maybe i'm just
showing my un-learnedness or something...but why revise history with further
bias? that is so Orwellian (is that a word?)...
and what i meant in my "home-schooling" post, for those who misunderstood,
was *not* that all evangelical christians homeschool their kids, and *not*
that they all shelter their kids...and *not* that all home-schooled kids are
sheltered...merely that *most* radically christian parents who choose to
homeschool their kids do so because they don't want their children seeing
things in the real world.
there are plenty of non-christian parents who take these sorts of measures.
when i was about 12, my aunt was dead set on sending me to private school,
preferably parochial and all-girls. she didn't push those brochures on me so
i could get a better education (although i'm sure i would have), she pushed
them because private school in los angeles is where the rich girls go, and
she/i would gain status...because she didn't want me around boys, mexicans,
russians, armenians, and blacks and asians who weren't from "high"
families...because she thought public school was where poor, unintelligent
people go. in a sense, sheltering me from the real world.
well, i am who i am because of the diversity i lived in during my
adolesence. i know more about the food, religions, languages and customs of
different cultures than my sister, who went to private rich-girl schools her
whole life. i'm not knocking private or parochial schools...they just aren't
for me. it's all up to who you are and what you think you can handle.
jillian.
and when i touch you, you don't feel a thing.
still deaf from being 10 feet away from bono.
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