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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Even so: your objection to community service requirements in public schools is based entirely on worst-case what-ifs. In order for your little "my school requires them to skin animals" analogy to work, you'd have to be actively opposed to the notion of community service. I don't THINK that's what you're saying, I just don't think you thought that analogy through particularly well.
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As I said before, I am not necessarily opposed to "community service" in general, I am opposed to public schools requiring it and thereby deciding what qualifies as "community service." If my child attends the Karl Marx Public School because that is the only school within 50 miles and they force a 75 hour community service requirement on my child, chances are they will not accept anything that I consider community service. So, the values I attempt to teach my child will not be recognized, and will in fact be undermined by that school.
It is certainly an extreme example, but one which better illustrates how conflicts of ideology can occur, and that the parent
not the school should hold the trump card when it comes to how their child is raised.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I also note that we're STILL talking in the abstract. Can ANYONE say ANYTHING about how schools are actually handling this? Because otherwise, I'll start a thread about whether public schools should be allowed to force our children to recite Dr. Seuss while standing on footstools and wearing textbooks as hats.
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For the record, I am fundamentally opposed to forcing our children to recite Dr. Seuss while standing on footstools and wearing textbooks as hats because many of his characters are clearly homosexual and it would destroy the fabric of this great nation to expose our children to filthy homosexuals like Sam who want to shove their "green eggs" and "ham" in all of our Christ-loving faces.