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Sorry, Oresta. Nothing personal. When I was at the University of Michigan in the 70's, professors would use Detroit as an example of urban devolution and the pernicious effect of Michigan's urban annexation laws.
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Good ones. My favorite was a poster that came out in 1967: Visit Detroit, it's a riot.
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"Seeker630, Was it your downriver school board that had a couple of its members unsuccessfully try to get creationism into the curriculum? I remember it was a hot issue."
I am in Lincoln Park. In our school system over the last 4 years or so we've had two nationally reported incidents involving Wiccan high school students, one of whom committed suicide after being constantly tormented by her fellow Christian classmates. The 1st incident involved a girl wearing a Wiccan pentagram on a necklace and she won that one. The other lawsuit on behalf of the parents of the deceased girl is still in the courts. As far as I know, the only recent controversey over creationism/evolution in the downriver area was in the Melvindale school district. It was not over teaching either one per se. A local minister and his group were pressing to get creationist reading material into the school library. I think they prevailed but I'm not sure. I haven't heard anything about it in a while. There may be others but I don't take the local paper so............. |
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Nativity scenes? From a long(!) history of Christmas:
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As far as I know, the only recent controversey over creationism/evolution in the downriver area was in the Melvindale school district. It was not over teaching either one per se. A local minister and his group were pressing to get creationist reading material into the school library. I think they prevailed but I'm not sure. I haven't heard anything about it in a while.
The minister was a board of education member. He failed to be reelected ![]() Edited for typos. Typoes? [ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: Oresta ]</p> |
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If I may point out this forum link on nativity scenes, for some cultural history you may not have leart in church:<a href="http://ii-f.ws/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=19&t=001039" target="_blank">http://ii-f.ws/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=19&t=001039</a>
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