Je jugerais que peut-être les sports et l’art devraient être annulés à Toto, afin de remplir des cours de civique, d’économie et de psychologie de base. C’est le seul moyen d’inoculer les gens contre le vote pour les populistes sociopathiques et les conmenants. La maison américaine est en feu, et aucune religion ne va éteindre les flammes, écrit Ellen Putman de University Heights dans une lettre à l’éditeur.
Wednesday’s article (”Fight brewing over released time religious instruction,” Nov. 13), regarding whether school districts should be required to let students to leave for religious studies, really hit a nerve with me. Taking a precious hour out of kids’ all-too-attenuated hours of learning for what LifeWise Academy calls “character-growing” instruction but one parent complained amounted to “bullying non-Christian children or kids from nontraditional families” is an odd kind of character-growing.
Our recent election starkly highlighted just how miserably people in this country are educated in economics, history, science, and in how to recognize an endless stream of propaganda. Too many fall for the most preposterous conspiracy theories, and happily follow demagogues. The last thing American children need is an extra weekly hour of study that discourages critical thought and reason.
The article states that no core classes will be missed. I would posit that maybe sports and art should be canceled in toto, in order to fill in with classes in civics, economics, and basic psychology. It is the only way to inoculate people against voting for sociopathic populists and conmen. The American house is on fire, and no amount of religion is going to extinguish the flames.
Ellen Putman,
University Heights
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