CB> CB> The last section should hit every teacher and 
CB> CB> parent hard - we do not 
CB> CB> expect as much from our youngsters as they are capable of doing. 
CB> 
CB>  MS>     Don't you see the bad side of this feel-good story?
CB>  MS>     Parents don't send their kids to public schools 
CB>  MS> and pay taxes to have their kids be a captive 
CB>  MS> audience for political purposes like being guilt-
CB>  MS> tripped about Third World poverty.
CB> 
CB> So our students should be isolated from the real world? Shouldn
CB> 't they know what is going on?
    There's a heck of a difference between teaching _facts_ (like that child 
labor is common in other nations) and urging students to do specific 
social-action projects.
    For example, the NEA in 1983 came out with a "curriculum guide" for using 
junior-high social-studies classes as a captive audience to be urged to favor 
the nuclear freeze movement.  That's very different from teaching kids the 
fact that nuclear weapons exist or the history of arms-control treaties 
regarding them.
CB> work in today's world. Political purpose? Is it wrong to want others 
CB> to be 
CB> free from slavery? Is it wrong to want to help someone.
    What is wrong is to use the public schools as a forum for politicking for 
causes, no matter how noble.
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