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well, let's also consider that shauk found this on myspace...and I'm personally not bothering to Snopesify it, but I'd take the authorship credit in the circulated message worth a large spec of crappy salt. I was just pointing out that there is some guy named Robert Alter, who apparently is some of cross-dimensional in his approach to spirituality and the teaching thereof, etc. I agree that I get a weirdo vibe from the way that was posted...but not because of the underlying message...more of the particular choice of diction. Not many people make their daughter's choice of plunging her chubby little fingers into her splunk package a central theme in a letter to their school district. There are, I believe, more diplomatic ways to express that opinion. Aside from that, the idea of letting children develop in a vacuum where they learn whatever they come on sounds like the sort of crap I would expect of a Branch Davidian or the like...
Thus, I can sympathize with some of the ideas he's imparting, but I don't think this particular approach is the most sound. As for public versus private schools, in my experience it really depends on the particular schools you have to choose some. I'll make that decision when the time comes. I don't feel comfortable condemning all public schools any more than I'd want to blanket-fashion condemn all private schools.
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