I'd like to know: Who did the survey? Who was asked? This sounds --
shall we say -- unlikely?!?
Katharine
At 10:04 PM 3/13/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>Harry:
>
>And today's International Herald Tribune reports 83% of US population
>waant so-called "Creation Science" taught in public schools, though 79%
>generously agree to the teaching of biology and palaeontology as well...
>
>What has happened to the Land of the Free?
>
>
>Patrick
>
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>
>On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Harold Needham wrote:
>
>> Achtung!
>>
>> Ja, ve haf to protect ze younk minds from zis Entartete Kunst, just like ve
>> did in ze good oldt days...und heaven help you if you haf on your vebsite
>> Entartete Musik, like Kalman's opera which ve supressed very successfully,
>> "Die Herzogin von Chicago". Unfortunately, ve were not zo successful wiz
dot
>> 3 groschen opera.
>>
>> 'Bout time for another Scopes monkey trial, good people. Ze mind do boggle
>> some. I regret to have to admit that we are seeing instances of the same
>> attitude among certain Canadian school boards out west.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: laura dickstein <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 11:06 AM
>> Subject: NYC B of Ed Says No to Museum Web sites???
>>
>>
>> > (Please excuse the cross-posting)
>> >
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > I had an interesting discussion yesterday with a group of 25 New York
City
>> > public school teachers. They were telling me that it is very hard for
>> them
>> > to find the time to get to visit museums. I suggested that they might
try
>> > to review museum resources on the Internet and was told the following
>> > astonishing fact (?): The NYC Board of Education has put up firewalls
>> > against museum Web sites. According to this group of teachers, it seems
>> > the B of Ed. doesn't want students to have the liberty to access museum
>> Web
>> > sites because they might contain things that are so-called inappropriate
>> > for children. Has anyone else heard this? Is this happening in other
>> > communities? If this is the case, this obviously has serious
implications
>> > for museums.
>> >
>> >
>> > __________________________________________________
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