Posted on 01/27/2003 1:28:48 PM PST by That Subliminal Kid
Why do all these replies to your post think this public school is so strange?
Government education in this country is dead..Please read... dead!
If people want their children to get an education...then do the following: Send your child to a good non-public school. No money you say Pure B.S......Give up your expensive vactions...forego the new car and drive your jalopy until the wheels fall of.....Dining out?.... Forget it
Bottom line...Save your child!!!!!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Hmmmmmm.
Ostracism, public shaming, and a good tongue-lashing have been a part of the justice system of virtually every culture ever to exist on the planet.
Ummm…that’s because madg is a liberal homosexual activist troll from GLAAD or similar and the TMLC is on the hit list…along with the AFA, CWA, FRI, et al…
Reason? to wit: Incompetent teachers, dumbed down curriculum, fear of political correctness by administrators, acceptance of those applauding and/or accepting sodomy as a reasonable lifestyle, the ACLU...to name a few.
Want to educate your child? Get them out of public "schooling" and put them into the best non-public (governmental) school available!
No money your say? A wimp response!... Forego that expensive vacation....drive your jalopy until the wheels fall off...no more expensive clothes or dining out....
Forget reformation of the Democratic party or the socialists such as Dachle, Clinton etc as these people have damaged our public school system beyond any sensible repair.
Bottom line...expend your energy instead to Save your child
The pro-life message should be "forced onto" children everywhere because abortion is murder. No one has a problem "forcing" the anti-murder message onto children.
Thank you for posting that laughable "mission statement." Does anyone see it? There is no mission. None whatsoever.
The true purpose of a school follows from the true purpose of human life (to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy forever with him in the next). The central purpose of a true education then is to aid a child in learning to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy forever with him in the next.
Have a nice day.
Please explain how this has anything to do with parents buying clothes (uniforms) for their children to wear to school.
"(There's a whole heck of a lot of us subsidizing education without much voice.)"
What does that have to do with children wearing uniforms to school?
"More importantly... you would be erecting a hurtle to equal treatment... something specifically disallowed."
How? If all children in the school are required to wear similar uniforms, they'd all be treated equally.
More importantly... you would be erecting a hurtle to equal treatment... something specifically disallowed. "
Worse premise. The idea of uniforms, while problematic, can't be invalidated on that basis alone. You're confusing the left's sacred cow of disparate impact with equal treatment under law. The type of confusion, in some quarters, that allows homeless people to defecate on streets with little consequence, because to forbid it might inconvenience them.
See Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice for a thorough treatment of the idea. A very interesting read.
The true purpose of a school follows from the true purpose of human life (to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy forever with him in the next). The central purpose of a true education then is to aid a child in learning to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy forever with him in the next.
You know that, and I know that, but you could never have that as a mission statement for a public school. The closest secular equivalant would be to help the students grow to their greatest human potential (which IS to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy forever with him in the next!)
Or to simply achieve "happiness," in the sense that Aristotle would have used the term. Unfortunately, the phrase "greatest human potential" can mean just about anything these days.
Don't like statements, ads or pictures on kids' shirts that would start an argument in school, either on my side or against it. "In loco parentis"--if we can allow no discretion to school authorities, we shouldn't be surprised that they won't act with authority. Look at the "zero tolerance" nonsense. Because of lack of discretion and common sense, you can't send your kid to school with Pepto Bismol without fear of being arrested for drugs...
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