Reply #15: Bullshit, d_dude.

[Dogtown]

Should you be able to choose if your child is taught about the works of Mark Twain?

Individual parents tailoring subject matter taught by schools is impossible and frivolous.

Any address made by the POTUS directly to students is a "current events" subject that most certainly should be *required* by all public school systems.

My son is an adult, but he was perceptive enough to have seen Bush as the lying military adventurer he was, and it's most appropriate that he learn to discern political lies as well as political truth. The schools gave him information, I helped him learn to process that information.

Only people wishing to mandate what their children think would censor their education. Unfortunately, they can. Not one kid in my subdivision goes to public school. Every one of them is home-schooled by parents without college educations, much less teaching certification.