LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
I want my kids to believe in getting a good education, but I’m not sure where they’ll get it. In the classroom? At home? In the gutter, where I got it? I have a friend who sends his kids to Catholic school, partly because he’s Catholic, but mostly because he lives in a big American city where – as in all big American cities – the public schools stink. I asked my friend, “Are the Catholic schools any good?” “No,” he said. “But the kids aren’t taught anything that I have to un -teach them when they come home.” And that’s pretty much all I’ve asked from the schools where I’ve sent my three kids. I’ve been lucky. They haven’t come home needing to be un-taught much. There was one occasion, at the kids’ sort-of- but-not-too-Montessori-ish grade school, when a teacher answered a second-grader’s
Fortunately for my police record, another parent blew her top before I had a chance to blow mine. The teacher was called to the dean’s office where her ears were pinned back and her hair was scorched off by an angry mom yelling, “Democrats care about ‘The People’! Democrats hate people ! Republicans care about people and hate ‘The People’! Especially you!” Fortunately for my police record, another parent blew her top before I had a chance to blow mine. “ And a few weeks ago the prep school where my middle daughter goes had “Unconscious Bias Day” – all classes were excused in favor of required attendance at six or eight hours of lectures, assemblies, workshops, and discussion groups devoted to the above- named topic. This is a traditional New England prep school – which is to say it is resolutely multicultural in curriculum, diversity-sensitive, and inclusivity oriented. Meanwhile, of course, preserving the age-old customs and mores of rich WASPs.
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question about the difference between Democrats and Republicans by saying, “Democrats care about people.”
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