Dennis Prager, in a new Townhall piece, has described a particularly odious phenomenon in current political debate (http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/05/23/198416.html).

I agree with Prager's premise that this labeling prohibits decent discussion about real problems.

My question is: do we homeschoolers do this, maybe unconsciously & unintentionally, WRT public schools? What are our code words?

I'm not advocating that we somehow compromise with the PS regimes, but do we unfairly paint an inaccurate picture?  None of my kids have ever been in PS; therefore ALL I know about PS is what I hear, read and see in print. Code words have a pernicious way of developing into theories and then "facts."

Are we succumbing to a similar trend?

...just wonderin'

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