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From: janney@unm-cvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Homosexual teachers- a serious question
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 04:30:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 04:30:16 1984
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>   I have a serious question for you single netters. Do you feel that a
> majority of parents in a particular neighborhood, have the right to 
> remove a gay teacher from a grammer school? Why or why not?

Parents (or anyone else) should be able to remove a teacher from a
school only if he or she is a bad teacher.  It's an old exercise, but
try changing the word "gay" in the quoted sentence to "black" or
"female" or "male" or "Jewish" or "born-again Christian" and see what
you think of it then.

>   I have observed that most parents believe this is so. But I'm Curious
> as to what single people feel about it.

This might be a good topic for net.kids.

>   My personal opinion is that the majority of parents in an area should
> have the right to remove a teacher for any reason, because no.1 that
> teacher has a profound effect upon their children and no.2 I believe
> in majority rule (or democracy if you prefer). 

I do prefer democracy, which is *not* the same as majority rule.  In a
democracy, there are restrictions to protect minorities from the rule
of the majority.  They don't always work (consider the internment of
Japanese-Americans during WW2), but they are much better than nothing.

Disclaimer: I am not a parent.  (But I am apparant :-))

Jim Janney
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