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Monday, March 24, 2008
Home Schooling: Certified teachers only?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A California appeals court has ruled that parents who lack teaching credentials can’t home school their children. The ruling under appeal but Steven Greenhut of the Orange County Register worries that “The Police State Project appears to be advancing rapidly here in California.” Should the state require certification for parents who homeschool?
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A racial dialogue: Let’s have one
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some pundits gushed that the 2008 presidential race would trancend race, that the U.S. was headed for a post-racial era. But in the last two weeks, the race seems to be all about race following the controversy over remarks by Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and comments by former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. The controversy has prompted a flood of reader responses to the AJC and has filled the national airwaves. In a speech last week in Philadelphia, Obama said, “Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.
“But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.”
How do we get past the racial divisions that seem to constantly resurface in America? Let’s have that civil, respectful discussion.
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