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...indoctrinated with the belief that the theory of evolution is fact, without the balance of other evidence. Evolution does not yet explain some vitally important questions about living forms, such as the vast chasm between man and other animal life. Religious doctrine should not be included in the public-school curriculum, but neither should a theory be taught as the final statement on origins while that hypothesis is still in the investigative stage...
About 80% of public-school children in major U.S. cities now take some kind of sex-education course. As for national figures, no one knows for sure: sex education is strictly a local matter, varying widely from one community to the next, and few accurate statistics are kept. Only Maryland, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., require the subject in all schools...
...attract attention, Du Pont must distinguish himself from the better- known competition with arresting ideas. To stop the spread of narcotics, he argues, all public-school teenage students should be compelled to take drug tests. (Du Pont did not go to public school.) The present welfare system is a failure and should be largely abolished. Government should offer extensive vocational training and temporary public jobs paying 90% of the minimum wage. All agricultural subsidies must be phased out over five years, after which market forces would govern farming. Any of these proposals would detonate controversy once the campaign is fully...
...Boston's public school system is the oldest in the nation, and among the most troubled. In a city of some 570,000 people, public-school enrollment has dropped from 93,000 in 1973 to only 59,000 today, in part because of the flight of white students to private and parochial schools after court-ordered busing began in the mid-1970s. In the high schools, the dropout rate has reached 43%. Only 3,000 seniors graduate each year...
...church." For this reason, in a decision widely regarded as a bellwether, the court earlier this year allowed Pawtucket, R.I., to use public funds to erect a nativity scene as part of a downtown Christmas display. The court has upheld laws that have a "secular purpose," like promoting education, but advance religion as a side effect. Many court watchers expect the Justices this term to uphold a "time-sharing" program in Grand Rapids that sends public-school teachers into parochial schools for remedial programs...