Re: [Phys-l] The attack on science is political, not philosophical

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

I'm less concerned about motivations than what I perceive to be the purpose 
of public education.  In my mind, it is to serve the society as a whole.  It 
is paid for by the tax-payers.  A student's parents are a VERY small subset 
of that society and therefore I have problems with parents being able to opt 
their children out of portions of that education.  In many cases they can 
even opt their children out of special education that has been diagnosed as 
needed by the child.  Parents, of course have the 'right' to opt out of 
public education altogether--private school, home schooling--but selective 
opt-outs should not, IMO, be part of the public system.

Rick

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Mackey" <jmackey@harding.edu>


> I'm glad to know that Alfredo knows all parents who might object to
> evolutional teaching and that their interest is in power and control,
> instead of what they (right or wrong) believe to be in the best interests 
> of
> their children.  I can relax secure in the knowledge that an all knowing
> authority ( tic) has spoken!
> James Mackey
>
> On 1/13/08, Alfredo Louro <louro.alfredo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >