The litigants in the Mozert case argued that the textbooks their children used were not "balanced" when it came to the presentation of controversial topics. What specific complaints did they have about the Holt reader? Were their concerns reasonable for textbooks used in a public school? Why or why not?
The complaint about the Holt reader was fundamentalist to religious belief, along with personal decision making, imagination, world unity, negative portrayals, women roles, stereotype, fairy tales and ect. They are complaint because parents and others do not want their children to learn unsuitable education that they won’t need for the “real world” or could harm them in the future. The concerns regarding the textbook used in public education as new materials, “that education is not what is was in the old days.” That textbooks present “multiculturalism, environmentalism, and globalism” to young children while reading the books, yet it present/show what life should be. (Ie p.5 last paragraph starting with Home meant a single-family… and babies did not throw up on the dog.) They think that textbook used in public school is a sign of act against God, and the parent want to censor them. I think that parent feel like they do not want their children to grow up because, they are protecting their children from reading school textbooks. Textbook are evil because it’s against God and what God taught their children. I do no think that it is reasonable for parent to used religion to stop their children from reading school textbooks.
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I agree with you. Parents should not interfere public education with their personal religious beliefs. The protesters just want to get a private education in a public school setting feeding off the school distict and I know you will agree with me that thats not right.
You are right, some parents try to shelter their children too much, and that is not good. They might as well be teaching their children themselves, rather than hiding the truth.
Its true, parents sometimes over protect their children, thinking that they are doing them a favor. They don't realize that this is no way of helping their children as they grow up. Children need to understand what is going on around, in order for them to learn about what life is about. They need to have a mind of their own.
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