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Public school: Where kids can’t think for themselves

Public school: Where kids can’t think for themselves What’s more important: Teaching kids to weigh information for themselves or sterilizing classrooms to ensure no one will be offended? That seems to be the key question in public schools today, as parents and special-interest groups fight over whether Peoria teachers can have Bibles on classroom bookshelves or whether Gilbert high-school biology textbooks can mention morning-after pills in a chapter about contraception. I know. This isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Schools have been sterilizing all sorts of things for years (it’s a harvest — not a Halloween — party!) in hopes of… View Article