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- From: wdo@TEFS1.acd.com (Bill Overpeck)
- Subject: Re: State Teaching (formerly: Pro-Choice Position?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.184745.3263@acd4.acd.com>
- Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:47:45 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <1992Jul14.011239.21066@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Keith A. Cochran) writes: >
- In article <1992Jul9.210555.1652@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com
- (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>
- In <1992Jul8.010926.8658@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@isis.cs.du.edu
- (Keith A. Cochran) writes: >>>
- In article <1992Jul6.210332.13220@acd4.acd.com> wdo@TEFS1.acd.com
- (Bill Overpeck) writes: >>>>
- In <1992Jul3.153144.2879@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@isis.cs.du.edu
- (Keith A. Cochran) writes: >>>>>
-
- >>>>>If "the state" has to teach anything, it should be extensive human biology/
- >>>>>sex ed/why _nobody_ should touch you there from grades K-12...
- >
- >>>>This, of course, would be "value neutral" education?
- >
- >>>Not at all. What it should be is fear-eliminating schooling. When an 8
- >>>year old girl understands what "her privates" are for, the odds of somebody
- >>>being able to molest her falls to a low. When a 7 year old boy understands
- >>>what "Uncle Timothy" is trying to do, and knows that he _can_ tell people
- >>>and be believed, the odds of him being sucessfully molested (multiple times)
- >>>falls drastically.
- >
- >>So you support the idea that values should be taught in the public
- >>school system? Interesting. Which values should we endorse? What
- >>criteria should we use to select the "right" values to teach?
- >
- >The value that your body is your own, and nobody has the right to use it
- >against your will.
-
- I don't disagree with your contention, but why is acceptable to include
- the teaching of this value in a public curriculum, and unacceptable to
- include other values? Abstinence, for example.
-
- Bill
-