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To: Atlantic Bridge

Darwin? His ideas are universal joke.

Sexual education? You mean the thing that has driven up the instance of venereal diseases (for example, so that most young women have contracted vaginal warts - warts that are the only known cause of cervical cancer) and abortion ?

I have spent nine years living in Germany as an adult, and I have observed that Germans are sheep - their culture is all about conforming. Nails that stick up are pounded down mercilessly. It starts in grade school and never stops.

Given all this, its hard to take what you say seriously.


8 posted on 05/22/2007 2:47:35 PM PDT by Notwithstanding ("You are either with America in our time of need or you are not" - W? No, 'twas Sen. Hillary 9/12/01)
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To: Notwithstanding
Sexual education? You mean the thing that has driven up the instance of venereal diseases (for example, so that most young women have contracted vaginal warts - warts that are the only known cause of cervical cancer) and abortion ?

The problem might be, that without sex ed. those girls would suffer even more warts and more abortions.

I have spent nine years living in Germany as an adult, and I have observed that Germans are sheep - their culture is all about conforming. Nails that stick up are pounded down mercilessly. It starts in grade school and never stops.

This is indeed true. There is a certain German obsession to conformance. The French i.e. simply burn the building of the fiscal authorities, if the taxes are too high. Such would never happen in Germany. Revolutions are impossible here because walking on the lawn is forbidden. ;)

Nevertheless this is a different issue than the homeschooling discussion. The reasons not to allow homeschooling have nothing to do with being adjusted in our society, they have to do with a different concept of individual freedom. We Germans say that the freedom of the kid to obtain all possible information is more important than the freedom of families to control the curriculum of their children.

9 posted on 05/22/2007 6:51:50 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (In varietate concordia!)
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