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To: Man50D
Tis the season.

The right thing to do of course would be for the school to cancel any publicly administered graduation ceremony and allow for the students themselves to organize one or more private ceremonies with their parents picking up the costs.

This way, any venue can be acceptable, no prayers can be stopped, and everyone will be happy.

2 posted on 06/01/2010 3:45:27 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102
The right thing to do of course would be for the school to cancel any publicly administered graduation ceremony and allow for the students themselves to organize one or more private ceremonies with their parents picking up the costs.

This way, any venue can be acceptable, no prayers can be stopped, and everyone will be happy.


The right way would be to appeal this horrible decision to prevent a small group of individuals from denying the majority their first amendment rights and to stop the socialist spin on the meaning of Separation of Church and State by pointing out it is not mentioned in the Constitution but refers to Thomas Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" remark to a group of Danbury, CT Baptists to assure them there was no national religion or church.
16 posted on 06/01/2010 4:10:31 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: pnh102
Tis the season.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It is always the season!

If it isn't proms, it is graduations or one of a thousand religiously non-neutral issues that all government schools must deal with as politically powerful groups of citizens fight for the hearts and minds of the next generation of voters.

I have a solution:

Shut down all the government schools tomorrow. Give each student a voucher for 1/3 the cost of what it costs the state now to educate a child in a government school. Over the next 10 years reduce the amount of the voucher and decrease property taxes. In ten years expect the parent to take full responsibility of educating their own children.

Yeah! There would be complete chaos for a few years, but parents would figure it out, and charity would step up to take care of the poor.

What we might see is what the U.S. had prior to the 1850s: homeschools, church schools, tutoring by neighbors, tutoring academies in the homes of neighbors, and apprenticeships.

53 posted on 06/01/2010 6:15:38 AM PDT by wintertime
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