CALL THE DHS!
We are a threat to the survival of the country:
The level-headed response of Cal Thomas (“Wake up,” Dec. 29) to the court decision barring the teaching of intelligent design as science in the public schools was so surprising I wondered if he could be serious. Then came the punch line: Religious parents should remove their children from public schools and place them in private or home schools, where they will be taught the truth according to their parents’ beliefs.
Back when the public-school system was a pillar of our democracy, most Christians saw their role as that of leaven in the collective loaf, being “in the world but not of the world.” Have we now gone from being leaven to wanting to be the whole loaf?
Bob Herbert’s column “Solution,” (Dec. 29) addressing the need for personal and community responsibility, was directly related.
Following desegregation, white flight from the public schools yanked the underpinnings of community involvement and responsibility from the system. If we are to survive as a democracy, we must all work together constructively – whites, blacks and Hispanics, left and right, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, secular and religious, capitalists and social advocates – instead of tearing the country apart.
W. EUGENE RUBLE
Winston-Salem
I should have known better. “Level-headed” and “Cal Thomas” should not ever appear together.
One Response to “CALL THE DHS!”
 Comment by Tad January 6th, 2006 at 10:00 am |
“Back when the public-school system was a pillar of our democracy…” My history text must have missed that brief interlude. “Centrally controlled, socialist bureaucracy” and “democracy” go together about as well as Cal Thomas and level headed. |