[Winona] FW: DISCRIMINATION with in ISD-861

[Paul Double]

If you do not understand what the ACLU has been doing during and before your
11 years in the PTA then you need to read more not less.  If you have not
heard any of the debate on the word "God" on anything owned by the public
then you need to listen to the many media comments on the same.  The reasons
should not puzzle you as public bodies in public building have chosen to
shut the door to any group, discussion or display that would open the door
for an undesirable group to offend the 85% plus religious community. Add to
that the constitutional purists who would love nothing better than to defend
their right not to be intimidated or indoctrinated.

 

Sad as it may be, the over protection of the minority is alive and well.

 

 

Paul Double  

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kfsjsljbfish at aol.com [mailto:Kfsjsljbfish at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:51 AM
 

Dear Readers,

  After being in PTA for 11yrs and listening to Linda Olson lament about
nobody offering these kids after school activities, I decided I would this
year.  WMS has but currently, does not service either of my children full
time.

  I appreciate the progressive spirit I have found in MN.  I thank the
Swedish founders of this state for some really humanitarian services not
found throughout the US.  I don't mind contributing to these programs with
my state tax.  They are REALLY good.

  It puzzles me, that the books I am offering to read after school, which
have been read 6000, 2006, and ~2000yrs around the globe, should be treated
differently than something published during the 1900s or even 2000s.

  I believe our progressive educational department in MN should include
religon in 4th or 5th grade.  (Perhaps, even before The Fourth Grade Talk,
so the kids are aware of the background their ancestors used to make the
decisions they face.)  Because a change of that magnitude would take years,
I am offering it as an after school activity.  I realize, this subject was
left out of curriculum because it was considered a family issue.  But with
the weaken state of The Family in the USA, 2006, I think our educators need
to consider it.

   Please help me in this matter.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Kathleen Giebel

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