Jim McCoy wrote:
>What matters is that in the public schools real education has taken a back
seat to politics.

If you let it everything takes a back seat to politics. I personally have
not encountered this problem recently any more than I did in the 50's and
60's. I am really not sure what you mean by politics controlling education
unless you mean the political fight for funding that goes on every budget
period.

A study done recently, I will try to find out who did it, showed that 80% of
the people polled gave public education in this country a failing mark. The
same people overwhelmingly believed that their school system was doing well.
So much for public opinion.

I don't know what type immorality your teacher friend fled from. I hope it
was that she couldn't in good faith teach the children that atrocities of
Western Civilizations were all done in the Name of G*d and were therefore
acceptable. I hope she had a problem with allowing certain groups of people
to run roughshod over other groups. I hope it was that she realized that
morality was about what happens above your waist not below. Morality can be
tough.

My employer doesn't even know I'm writing this.

Work For Peace,

Yosef Rosenblatt

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