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I am for exposing students to a variety of perspectives and facts, and foe helping them to develop the skills needed to reach their own conclusions. However, the "peace curriculum" appears to be something else: A "values-based" curriculum, i.e., religious indoctrination with a secular veneer.WM: It seems to me that what's missing is that curricula in schools, both public and private, has always been politically determined. Think about the 1950's textbooks which called the American Civil War either 'the war between the states' or 'the war of northern aggression.' Guess where these textbooks were popular? The South? Well, if you include southern Ohio, et.al. as the South.
I distinctly remember the nuns recounting to us the fact that southern families sent their girls, along with the girls' slaves, to my school during the 'war between the states' so they would be safe from 'Yankee aggression.' The school was then called Mother Seton High, it's probably St. Seton High at this point.
The other thing that's forgotten in this discussion is that kids, no matter what particular hogwash adults indoctrinate them with, usually throw it off, knowing it for what it is. It takes more than school indoctrination to ensure that kids grow up accepting any particular notions. That's pretty hard to achieve. How many Amish kids wind up with Walkmans and radios and haircuts and etc.? How many fundamentalist kids wind up playing cards, dancing, and going to movies? I think we adults have a false notion of our power over kids.
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