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crazyfingers · 03-25-2002, 08:19 AM

This was is the Boston Globe yesterday:

<a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/083/south/Wrong_answer_for_preschool+.shtml" target="_blank">Wrong answer for preschool</a>

Quote:

On the six-month anniversary of Sept. 11, when people across the country were stopping to remember the importance of individual freedoms Americans so cherish, the directors at the East Milton Day Nursery School met with parents to restate their intention to introduce religion - specifically, Christian religion of the Bible-as-fact variety - to the curriculum for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds.

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After weeks of e-mails, conversations, a petition against the change that every parent signed, and parent meetings that the board declined to attend, the board finally held an open meeting March 11 at the church. Parents were hardly comforted by what they heard: the weekly religious curriculum would include ''biblical concerns'' such as Noah's Ark, Moses, the creation, the birth and death and resurrection of Christ, but it would remain ''nonsectarian.'' All would be taught ''as fact.''

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According to parents, the school includes Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and atheists.

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Not one parent, out of 70 families, has signed up for the school for next fall.

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Meanwhile, parents have just found space to start a new school at a Jewish temple in Milton. They are in the process of fund-raising and looking for staff. But they know what their philosophy is: Their new school will offer a warm, loving, supportive environment for children and families. There will be no religious component to it.

Good!

Secular Elation · 03-25-2002, 08:23 AM

Heading in the right direction, I see!

Doug · 03-25-2002, 09:02 AM

This worked just like it should in this case. The school is a private, church run school that has every right to teach religion to the kids if they wish. The parents also have every right to pull the kids out if they don't like it.

This is a big difference versus public schools, where all the people of the area pay for it and have no choice as to where the kids will go if they are to go to the public schools they are paying for.

notto · 03-25-2002, 09:54 AM

These 70 parents are all obviously part of the evil indoctrination conspiracy that Randman has been talking about. They have been caught red handed. Those poor children, prevented from learning the "truth".

Krieger · 03-25-2002, 12:22 PM

Thats great.

ohwilleke · 03-27-2002, 03:06 PM

Good news. Ahh Boston, where the parents are actually sensible!

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03-25-2002, 08:23 AM	#2
Secular Elation Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: California Posts: 6,196	Heading in the right direction, I see!

03-25-2002, 09:02 AM	#3
Doug Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: New York, NY Posts: 629	This worked just like it should in this case. The school is a private, church run school that has every right to teach religion to the kids if they wish. The parents also have every right to pull the kids out if they don't like it. This is a big difference versus public schools, where all the people of the area pay for it and have no choice as to where the kids will go if they are to go to the public schools they are paying for.

03-25-2002, 09:54 AM	#4
notto Regular Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Minneapolis, MN US Posts: 133	These 70 parents are all obviously part of the evil indoctrination conspiracy that Randman has been talking about. They have been caught red handed. Those poor children, prevented from learning the "truth".

03-25-2002, 12:22 PM	#5
Krieger Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: ... Posts: 2,191	Thats great.

03-27-2002, 03:06 PM	#6
ohwilleke Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Posts: 4,834	Good news. Ahh Boston, where the parents are actually sensible!

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