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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Homeschooling (was Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith)
- In-Reply-To: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu's message of 31 Dec 1992 18:33:16 GMT
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:26:16
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- Steve Pope posts:
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- And what really bugs me is that the people who are killing
- public education by pulling their kids out of public schools
- have the audacity to blame the problem on "liberal educators
- with their social agendas" and other imagined demons.
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- I don't understand about "audacity". People could conceivably be
- mistaken in believing that "liberal educators with their social
- agendas" are miseducating their children, but if they believe that,
- what is "audacious" about withdrawing their children. Does someone
- have a right to these children that the parents are violating?
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- We have on this newsgroup a proposed social agenda that I consider
- harmful. So far as I can, it isn't too bad in the Palo Alto School
- District yet.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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