Jason Stone wrote:
 
> That's odd, I thought that peace was a generally accepted 
> 'good', while Imperialism is not.

To think so, means that you are taking a political stand.
To many Palestinians peace is not generally accepted as
good.  To Jews in the Warsaw ghetto unconditional peace
would not have been a positive outcome.  Both peace and
imperialism have their good and bad points.  I don't
happen to believe that teaching children that peace is
unconditionally 'good' is wise.

Regardless, the question at hand is whether the public
schools should be taking political positions.  I don't
see that teaching about world peace is necessary for a
an elementary school education.

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park 

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