Posted on 03/16/2005 7:07:22 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
I don't see anything changing. We live in a RED state (every town, every county) and Tom Coburn is our new Senator.
Last Tuesday, I attended my youngest child's concert wherein they said the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer, sang several Patriotic songs including the National Anthem and the state song was soloed by a beautiful beautifully voiced little girl. The kids all wore red white and blue clothing.
Oh, did I mention that the event was held at an Evangelical Church? Yeah, God ain't present at my kids' "publick skools."
There is nothing at all wrong with a society whose members are overwhelmingly adherents to a particular religion to establish national holidays for all to observe. Those who are non-adherents can respectfully rest and reflect and recreate in their own ways if they wish to. No one is being forced to offer worship or praise in any particular fashion.
I like it.
I like the short version...make them paddle on hand made rafts to Kooba.
Then lucky you. A lot of schools have prohibitions about praying in schools and the list is growing every day. You should do your homework before you jump on someone and call their postings bogus!
and pagan holidays like Halloween could also be celebrated with time off.
we would also be able to keep New Year's Day
So why aren't you working every Sunday, why are you taking Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving Days off? Why don't you practice what you preach. Bigot!!
fellow Freeper, i do not want a fight with you about holidays. my posting was in jest. please accept my apologies if i have offened you.
oops "offended" that was a typo
Where do you live? I moved on purpose so that my kids would have the freedom that they do.
FWIW, I grew up and went to school in California and have raised my children in California, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. The Union is not a monolith.
You mean government schools. And why do you call legitimate criticism, bashing? I think the public school system is one of the greatest failures in America. If you disagree let's start a thread and see why.
It' 11 pm on the East Coast. You have all night to think of a reply because I am going to bed.
Go to bed, you chicken. I've had kids in public and private schools for over twenty years. Call me on where I'm wrong.
Check this out and tell me what you think.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/new_96_report.htm
3 pictures tell the story.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/new_96_report.htm#pictures
Just ignore her. She always shows up on public school threads. She lies like a rug.
2005
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/education.htm
the trend continues.
How many public school teachers enroll their kids in - public school? How many parents with vouchers would prefer to keep their own kids in - public school? Is that "bashing"? Have I bashed? Clubbed? Assaulted? Attacked? Beaten? Bloodied? That is what bash means, isn't it?
'While many of our schools appear to avoid solid academic training in favor of 'self-esteem' training, this must be working since in the latest round of international tests American students led the world in one department: 'self-esteem.' As in previous international tests, American students had the highest perception of how well they had done. 70% said they thought they had done well. This would be comic if it were not so tragic. While there are many particular things that can be criticized in our public schools, many critics often miss the point when they fail to see that the key to all these counterproductive policies are the people who make them. If we purged our public schools of all the silliness there today, we would have accomplished little if the same kinds of people were left in place to bring in new non-academic nonsense tomorrow. Raising teacher salaries will not fix it.' (Professor Thomas Sowell).
This should have been posted in General Interest/Chat, not in News/Current Events.
NEA plant.
I really doubt that this is the case. Do you have source for this claim?
http://www.scifilm.org/reviews3/islanddrmoreau.html
(and, it's: WHOM) :)
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