From: "Mark Levenson" <markl-AT-levenson.com>
Subject: Re: Politically Correct Puppet Theater
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:11:40 -0800


> From: David M Boiano <vent-AT-juno.com>
> >Last year, I didn't do ANY holiday stuff all year to be
> >politically correct.....I just didn't want to deal with the issue.
> >I decided to forget this politically correct stuff.  We are actually
> going to 
> >sing Silent Night as one of the songs......and the principal said that
> if 
> >there was any flack about it, he would deal with it!  ......Maybe the 
> >pendulum is starting to swing the other way......
> >Carol  C:o)
> I can't tell you how much I enjoyed reading your post Carol.
> Teachers in the school my children attend have done the same thing, not
> doing holiday stuff because they didn't want to deal with the issue.
> I would like to see more of the kind of action you are taking this year,
> after all, why should the kids today miss out on things that we adults
> have wonderful memories of from when we were kids, just for someone
> else's idea of "politcally correct".

I think most people can agree that political correctness has in many ways
gone too far.  However, before we return to the days when public school
children could be forced to pray, and sing, to a God they did not not
worship (or singled out for ridicule by their fellows for not participating
in such school- and government-sanctioned activities), let's remember that
the movement now maligned as "political correctness" arose out of some very
real problems, primarily a lack of respect for our fellow citizens. While
we've made some progress since the 1950s, I think we'd be hard pressed to
conclude that we now suffer from too much mutual respect in society.  A
middle course that acknowledges the concerns of all might be better than
returning to an era that required these remedies in the first place.

Mark Levenson
The Levenson Company
503-452-4046/voice
503-245-1161/fax
markl-AT-levenson.com



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