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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Yes its a crap system, and I too will be teaching my children outside of the school, but that doesn't justify the pseudo-intellectual rant of the author nor does it mean that children should just be allowed to 'develop' on their own. Thats just idiotic.
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To me that just sounds like your educational philosophy is different from this guy's. I'm not arguing the letter was too much on the rant, but as for differing educational philosophies-- whatever. If you think his ideas are unsuitable, don't use them yourself.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Puritanical sex issues did NOT come from my public schooling in the least. I think the guy is potentially a child molester and definitely full of himself. Its one thing to not want your child to have sexual hang ups, it another to write about your daughter singing about her vagina and sticking her fingers in it at 5.
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I'm sorry, I just think that's a completely untoward conclusion. Children touch themselves. Western society tells them not to. I don't see how pointing that out means that this guy's a child molester, any more than it means I am because I admitted the same thing just now. Puritanical sex issues come from all around us. Maybe not public school more than other places, but not less either. You seem to see any reference to children experiencing the fact that they have sexual organs as indicative of sick and demented desires. That seems, I'm sorry, a bit puritan to me.