WHY I AM A DESTINY. WHY I WRITE SUCH LAME POSTS. So looking over the whole voucher dispute, I see that although I think I have answered UP (albeit much more obliquely than I intended), I also misrepresented his position–he’s saying that moral education should not be a primary purpose of schooling, not that there should be a wall of separation between ethics and school. Now, how I missed this I don’t know, since he up and said it in so many words. I’m still not clear on how moral education should, in his view, work as a subordinate goal of education (meaning that morality is only dragged in where absolutely necessary, e.g. to answer the kid who wants to know why he can’t dunk Susie’s braids in the inkwell*?) But I think if you read over my posts below you’ll be able to mix-and-match my rather sloppy reading of UP’s position and end up with an actual reply. Sorry about that. Like I said, more in the voucher series soon.

*Yes, folks, in my mind all elementary schools are either just like mine, or a combination of The Great Brain and John Bellairs…