America 1980-1989: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 77 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1980-1989.

America 1980-1989: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 77 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1980-1989.
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A sample specific objection listed in the Smith case included the "family life" chapter found in a home-economics course that promoted a positive self-image, decision making, and personal responsibility. The National Legal Foundation supplied as an expert witness psychologist Dr. Williams Coulsen, who testified for five days. His testimony included the argument that this chapter could encourage delinquency in those "who do not deserve to have self-esteem." He testified that encouraging teens (whom he referred to as "little children") to think independently violates parents' rights, and also submitted that the implication in one home-economics chapter that teens would grow up and choose their own careers was a violation of parents' rights. It is wrong, he said in later testimony, to tell a student he can decide between right and wrong. Asked whether teens who are offered drugs have to make a choice, he answered, "No...

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