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Responsibility of parents, schools

Reading the “Parent's shouldn't indoctrinate children” letter dropped my IQ by 5 points. It is so full of logical fallacies that it would be impossible to address them all in a single letter of comparable length.

Let’s start with the assertion about the role of a parent. It is absolutely a parent’s job to teach their children as best they can their views on morality, politics, personal health choices, among other teachings. It might even be the most important role of a parent.

For the argument to be valid, one would ha...