Re: Confusion about legality of Linux
2008/12/10 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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> On 12/10/08 11:55, Sam Kuper wrote:
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>> 2008/12/10 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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>>> On 12/10/08 10:06, Jeff Soules wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, marc <gmane@auxbuss.com> wrote:
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>>>>> after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to discipline?
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>>>> For an American public school? Unfortunately, probably the latter.
>>>> Pray forgive my cynicism...
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>>> Discipline a priority in American public schools? ROTFLMAO.
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>>> Seriously, though, the primary school that my sister teaches is pretty
>>> strict (and their average test scores are like in the 90th percentile), but
>>> they are mostly born-again right-wing Christians and most parents authorize
>>> the school to apply corporal punishment.
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>> Gosh, that sounds awful. High grades don't justify violence against
>> children, IMO. If Aaron had been at that school and the teacher had felt he
>> was misbehaving, he might have been beaten for handing out free software.
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> That last sentence is probably the dumbest thing I've read this month.
I doubt it.
I know people who *were* beaten at school for perceived (not actual)
infractions. In any school with corporal punishment, there's a danger
that it be used on pupils who have done nothing wrong.
But this is way OT now, and I won't pursue it further.
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