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Daniel Ehrenberg wrote: | --- Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote: |>The only force observed to regularly get school boards to change what |>passes for their minds is public ridicule. I would be /delighted/ if a |>school board censored the Wikipedia, and the more false positives we can |>mock them for, the better. |> | | You can't think in that frame of mind. If Wikipedia | were banned in school, than many kids (at least two, | we know that for sure) will loose a valuable source of | information in the short term. | -LDan
I am genuinely sorry that you might be inconvenienced, Li'l Dan, but I can and do think in that frame of mind. Quite a few kids have managed to graduate from various sorts of educational establishments without the benefit of Wikipedia. If a few more have to struggle along for a few years only being able to access it from home, I consider it a trivial price to pay for improving the system over the long term.
To give you context: I have a five-year-old who is entering formal school this fall. Her future is my frame of mind. If the current victims of the government schools must continue to do without something they have never had before for a little while longer to give her a better future, I -- quite selfishly -- say "so be it."
- -- ~ Sean Barrett | Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in ~ sean@epoptic.com | rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.