Word: notionally
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Home schooling -- motivated by the notion that learning should be unpolluted by the classroom -- is an eccentricity that has become a national movement. "Pick the menu. It's your meal," intones Stephen Moitozo, a home-school parent in Auburn, Me. Upwards of 500,000 U.S. children are being schooled at home, a tenfold increase in a decade. Their ranks are still swelling. In Maine alone this year, there were 1,500 parental applications to state authorities for permission to teach children at home, in contrast to four in 1981. "We have everything from Black Muslims to Jews and one woman...
...backbone of the home-school movement is the Christian Fundamentalist community, which believes that religion is either abused or ignored in the classroom. Other parents reject public education for more conventional reasons: poor academic standards, overcrowding, safety. The most uncompromising group call themselves "unschoolers," viewing as anathema any notion of educational structure...
...court should have focused on how the vote was undertaken, not on what the vote was deciding. Somehow the federal court believed that Congress explicitly shielded judicial elections from the voting act's standards. It's difficult to know where that notion came from, since Section Two demands fairness in the "political process" and "representatives of their choice"--terms that presumably apply to all democratic elections...
...attempt to jump-start the bargaining in late July, Darman proposed that both parties simultaneously put their offers on the table so that neither could gain a partisan advantage. But that notion fizzled. Two days before the so-called "immaculate conception" was due to take place, Senator Robert Packwood, a garrulous Oregon Republican, disclosed that Darman planned to eliminate income deductions for state and local taxes. Predictably, both Republican and Democratic Governors exploded, complaining that the idea would make it impossible to balance the budgets in their hard-pressed states. Democratic summiteers labeled the new tax a political maneuver. Within...
...axiomatic that in the end the American people must accept responsibility for what is happening inside the beltway. Too many voters have allowed themselves to be seduced by the notion that they can have their goodies from government with no increase in price. A mighty military, Social Security, Medicare, farm subsidies, poverty programs, housing, highways, bridges, clean air, clean water, veterans' benefits -- the whole great panoply of federal involvement in American life -- must, like everything else, be paid for. Today, it is not being paid for. The federal deficit, now nearly $300 billion if various "off-budget" items like...