Dear visionaries,
Michael responded to my offer about naming the government schools by saying, “No deal on my part! I propose that you continue to call schools that are governed by the community ‘government schools’ I will hence forth refer to your unregulated schools as ‘madrasa’s’ Deal?”
To which I say:
If the schools are truly governed by the community, then do you agree that the community has the authority to shut them down? The reason I raise the question is that such authority reveals where the true ownership is. If the local community really does have the authority to keep the tax-funded schools open, or to close them down, as seems best to them, I am more than willing in this forum to dispense with the offensive phrase “government schools.”
Deal?
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.