IPSO FACTO?
Logic appears to be on the endangered species list. Now, it’s a lawyer who just doesn’t get it:
A specialist in the defense of juveniles, Brown tailored his remarks to the community’s role in raising youth. He decried schools that suspend or expel unruly students who have questionable home lives. Such youths need the structured, nurturing environment of the schoolhouse to steer them in the right direction, not toss them into the street, he said.
Like sponges, Brown said, the kids are going to absorb material and information around them no matter the message or messenger.
They will learn, he said.
“The question is, from whom, (and) what?” Brown asked the audience, which often applauded him vigorously.
He questioned a trend toward home schooling as the answer, because the children “will lose all of their social skills.”
And that’d be a bad thing, how?
One Response to “IPSO FACTO?”
 Comment by triticale January 20th, 2005 at 2:12 pm |
I would refer this individual, as I do others who think like him, to the canonical text on peer group socialization among school age children, a tome entitled Lord of the Flies. |