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And the goshdarn Liberal Wrote: Jun 23, 2010 10:32 AM
For me, the salient point was "at a St Louis School". This column and all attending slams at liberals was based on one nut case school. This is not the entire school system of the US, but of one school in St Louis. Put it in perspective, please.

There's a great moment in the 1993 movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer." Ben Kingsley plays a coach for a 7-year-old chess prodigy named Josh. Kingsley wants the boy to stop playing chess in the park and devote himself completely to Kingsley's tutelage. Josh's mother doesn't like the idea, because she's a jealous guardian of her son's childhood. "Not playing in the park would kill him. He loves it."

Kingsley complains that her decision "just makes my job harder."

"Then your job's harder," she responds.

As the father of a 7-year-old myself, that scene comes to my mind...

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