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Incidentally, another of the distinctions dismantled by Brown is the difference between fantasy and reality. She sets the end of her novel in a wickedly wonderful Mount Olympus, where a rainbow is formed each time Jupiter ejaculates ("Better than fire-works," comments Frazier...
...Main Street, U.S.A." (another Disney reference), the number "Only One Can Be the Best" sounds like it's being played by an unsynchronized high school band--we wonder if this sound characterizes smalltown America. In an impressive conclusion, Peters presents a charming ballad and Irish jig ("Chasin' the Rainbow"), beautifully sung by the poor Irish immigrant Maureen (Wynne Love). It is exciting to know that all of this music has been written by a Harvard undergrad; too bad we aren't told more about this project in the program...
...Rainbow Curriculum was a grotesquely inept and ill-conceived program, or so many education experts have said. The school boards, however, did not object on the basis of educational theory, for few board members have even an iota of expertise in this area. Their beef with the program, and hence with Fernandez, stemmed from their visceral moral objections to homosexuality...
...most important issue raised by the Rainbow Curriculum has little to do with the curriculum itself-and that is the matter of how it was fought...
...theory is not susceptible to a vote. Nor are the psychological mechanisms of childhood learning. To consign the academic fate of America's children to anything less than astute professionals is to invite mediocrity. The American educational system has problems far more pressing than the moral significance of the Rainbow Curriculum. Let's leave the management of out schools to people with the experience, training and wisdom to confront them...