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  1. Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Homeschooling (was  Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith)
  5. In-Reply-To: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu's message of 31 Dec 1992 18:33:16 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec31112616@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <scottj-311292082509@iamac-1.dml.georgetown.edu>
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  12.     <31DEC92.17162343@vax.clarku.edu> <1hvedcINNdg4@agate.berkeley.edu>
  13. Date: 31 Dec 92 11:26:16
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  15.  
  16. Steve Pope posts:
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  18.      And what really bugs me is that the people who are killing
  19.      public education by pulling their kids out of public schools
  20.      have the audacity to blame the problem on "liberal educators
  21.      with their social agendas" and other imagined demons.
  22.  
  23. I don't understand about "audacity".  People could conceivably be
  24. mistaken in believing that "liberal educators with their social
  25. agendas" are miseducating their children, but if they believe that,
  26. what is "audacious" about withdrawing their children.  Does someone
  27. have a right to these children that the parents are violating?
  28.  
  29. We have on this newsgroup a proposed social agenda that I consider
  30. harmful.  So far as I can, it isn't too bad in the Palo Alto School
  31. District yet.
  32.  
  33. --
  34. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  35. *
  36. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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