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echo: educator
to: SHEILA KING
from: TOM COTTON
date: 1996-06-12 14:47:00
subject: Parental Involvement

SK>I posted an article from the Daily Report Card, which I quote in part
  >below:
SK>-> ->    A bill in Congress, the Parental Rights and Responsibilities
  >-> Act, is known to some as the "Parents Know Best" bill, according to
  >-> -> the paper.  The legislation states that "governments should  not
  >-> interfere in the decisions and actions of parents without
  >-> compelling justification."  Supporters of the bill say it would
  >-> bolster the arguments of parents who "object to government
  >-> regulations in schools and social services," writes the paper. But
  >-> detractors charge that the bill would force educators to attempt
  >-> to please every parent all the time.
  >->    Michael Simpson, legal counsel for the National Education
  >-> Association, said the bill would cause schools to provide a
  >-> "designer curriculum" for each child.
SK>I simply see this Bill as creating a much larger problem than anything
  >it would solve.
This post is a fine example of why WE SHOULD NOT HAVE a National
curriculum.  It makes it too easy for a few misled individuals to impose
their ideas, morals, ect. on the rest of the nation.
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