DAVID was heard muttering to PAUL NIXON 
 about WE? 
 PN> Depends on how they define the act of school prayer.  A moment of
 DRN> Me either, but it seems that's forbidden also....
 
 Not here.  Guess it depends on the district.
 PN> Better, though to scrap the whole state educational system,
 PN> privatize, give the taxpayers back their productivity to buy whatever
 PN> education they choose.
 DRN> 
 DRN> That's how it used to be and I can't really say for sure I'm in favor
 DRN> of it.  There must be some standards observed if children are to go
 DRN> on to college, certain courses have to be taught if the student's are
 DRN> to continue in a different system.  Also, what about moving?  Suppose
 DRN> my school system teaches first year algebra in 7th grade and my child
 DRN> finishes 6th grade and then transfers to a system that teaches it in
 DRN> sixth grade?  How can he catch up?  The idea would have to include
 DRN> some nation wide standards, I think....
 Isn't one of the considerations you make when you move the quality of
 the school system?
 As a practical matter, 3/4 of the bs we have in the schools now comes
 from Washington.  When we accept that the central government can impose
 "standards" on us we give up a concommitant degree of freedom: a
 metaphor for the last 50 years.
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