CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> >>>Sigi Rindler <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>>I may do just that.  But, our daughter was accepted at a private school
> >>>>>>so my first order of business tomorrow is to go to the bank and furikomi
> >>>>>>a year's worth of tuition.  It empties the bank account fast.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>how can you be sure a private school is any better than a state school i
> >>>>>wonder?
> >>>
> >>>>And now let me ask you this one: Why are private schools better than public 
> >>>>schools in the USA and in the UK?
> >>>
> >>>Are they?
> > 
> >>In some cases, yes. 
> > 
> > Which implies "in some cases, no".

> Yes.  And the suggestive way a stripper dances also implies you're going 
> to get laid tonight.

No, the suggestive way a stripper poses implies you've paid a cover
charge.

> >>We chose the school based upon the fact that it is 
> >>strictly secular (no attention paid to any of the Middle Eastern 
> >>mythologies and no overt displays of religious regalia accepted), 
> > 
> > Sounds like a public school.

> Are you writing in English

Yes. Are you unable to read the language?

> (the Holy language of God, the Bible, and the 
> Texas State Legislature)

Sorry, that's odd even by a non-native English speakers' standard...

I actually spent a year in a Texas high school. Not a great experience,
but no mention of God at all.

> I am guessing you do not mean the British meaning ... in which case, if 
> you read the local news from "home" you'll find a lot more school boards 
> are being threatened into allowing children to pray in class, carry 
> Bibles in school, wear large crosses (and yarmulkes and tsvilim) and 
> t-shirts printed with fundamentalist crap on them.  One of my nieces was 
> complaining that some fundy parents griped until the school board 
> allowed lunchtime prayer meetings and made them set aside a separate 
> "prayer" room -- and this was in a blue state, not clay eating country.

What people do on their own time is of no consequence to me, so long
as it does not involve harm to a  non-consenting individual. I suppose
I'm just conservative that way.

This is not a matter of a school promoting a religious credo, but 
rather (and properly) allowing for the various expressions of various
individuals. I would no more ban the wearing of crosses than I would
the wearing of earrings. I would no more ban a "Jesus Saves" shirt than
a "Jesus Saves; Gretzky rebounds, he SCORES!" shirt.

Neither implies the school teaches religion (or hockey.)

> >>emphasizes excellence in math and sciences, holds classes in three 
> >>languages (Japanese, English, French) from the first year, and is part 
> >>of an international system of about 400 international schools which all 
> >>teach the same curriculum.  That gives us the freedom to move to another 
> >>country without seriously messing up where our children are in their 
> >>educational cycle.  Plus the graduation diploma produced is accepted in 
> >>most of North America and Western Europe.
>
> >>And, we've met a number of graduates of the system and they tend not to 
> >>be the assholes that the graduates of the American School seem to be.
> > 
> > Thank God you didn't turn out like that, hunh?

> Nope, I didn't.  I had to wait until I completed ROTC to become a fully 
> certified asshole.  And then it turned out that the people who had 

Perhaps you underrate yourself.

> become total assholes in high school or in the Academy were way ahead 
> and were too difficult to compete against in the race for promotion to 
> the upper ranks.

Well, there's always the 'little corporal' ranks...

Mike