Re: Negativity and derisiveness project an elitist image

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorraine Ballato"

> I think the shift in environmental awareness is coming at people from all 
> angles and if a backyard gardener is missing >it, they must be living in a 
> cave.  But just this past week when speaking to a garden club, someone 
> asked me what an >organic fertilizer was, so there's a lot of education to 
> be done.  In many cases in CT, the parents are getting the >message as 
> it's being brought home from their children via lessons and science 
> projects at school. And that IS a good >thing.

I have been trying to bite my tongue, Lorraine, but ultimately without 
success. The idea that public school teachers should be using children to 
sway the parents on what is a multi-sided issue I find frightening rather 
than a good thing. I would be reassured if I thought teachers would give a 
balanced analysis or if I thought children were capable of balancing 
different views, but I don't.

D 

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