It's true that no one of us is neutral, and certainly not those who strive to be neutral, non-opinionated and fair and dispassionate. Disagree with one of those people and see what happens very quickly.
I read Rags123 'Not neutral' comment above as those who would either derogate widespread particular belief systems in this country, or at least add to the mind set that one religion is as good as another and not read it in the way described in the above
post.
I believe that Rags123 and me and many many other people are the end users and consumers of present and recent educational system, and can see the muddled, confused products in the moral, spiritual and (gulp) religious lives of our students.
And it's all too easy to play down the importance of who selects and buys the text books for our kids' school districts - especially in social studies. Neutral? No. As neutral as coining a word like "Christianistic." Says an awful lot about one's purported neutrality.
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