SB 167 – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png SB 167 – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 Very Fine People On Both Sides https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/very-fine-people-both-sides/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:49:46 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/very-fine-people-both-sides/ Yes, the Nazis were bad. But adding an “unless you’re talking about the Nazis” provision to the bill doesn’t solve anything. Wrestling with the relative “good” and “bad” of various economic systems, political beliefs, lifestyles, attitudes, behaviors, and the like, is one of the primary functions of secondary education. Yes, we’d like them to be employable. Yes, we aspire to see them happy and personally fulfilled. But somewhere in the mix is this crazy hope that they’ll be informed, rational citizens, capable of weighing complex ideas and understanding multiple points of view. 

Unlike, for example, the folks pushing this legislation. 

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