Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ray From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel Message-ID: <11683@rochester.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 14:12:56 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.11683 Posted: Tue Sep 17 14:12:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 02:34:53 EDT References: <7800427@inmet.UUCP> <7800431@inmet.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 49 > > /* Written 3:50 pm Sep 10, 1985 by lkk@teddy in inmet:net.flame */ > In article <227@pyuxii.UUCP> tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) writes: > >Yes, Armstrong, but you do not have to join the Boy Scouts > >nor are you required to sing "God Bless America". > >There's the difference. > >T. C. Wheeler > > > In my elementary school, we WERE required to sing "patriotic" songs > every day. We were also required to salute the flag. I remember we used sing > one about the Green Berets, and how great is was to be one. If this isn't > militaristic indoctrination, I don't know what is. > So what? Why not salute the flag, you are an American aren't you? What is the problem with patriotic songs. Do you find patriotism offensive? Depending on which country you live in, patriotism means different things. In this country it means supporting the freedom with which our government is based. Do you find freedom offensive? > Although my parents found the idea of my joining the cub scouts somewhat > distasteful, they allowed me to do so, since it was considered almost "de > rigeure" for boys my age. Had I not, I would have ended up a social outcast. > I can't believe what you are saying. Your parents find the cub scouts distaste- full? Why? I would think that parents would object to having their kids going to geek rock concerts than to the cub scouts. > In the USSR, no one is forced to join the Young Pioneers. But those who > don't do so suffer quite a bit of scorn from their peers, as well as > unfavorable offical attitudes as a result. > Fine. It is a good thing we don't live there isn't it. > Please don't tell me that there is no political indoctrination in our > schools, I lived throught 6 years of it. > You only had 6 years of education, hmmm? > > -- > > Sport Death, > Larry Kolodney > (USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk > (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc.arpa > /* End of text from inmet:net.flame */ *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com