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It is probably also a good time to address the obvious elephant in the room.
In order to give parents control over what instruction their children were getting in school, the government took away the parent's ability to consent to what instruction the parents wanted their children to receive in school and instead took it upon itself to restrict the instruction that children would receive in spite of what the parents may or may not think.
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"Do not be indifferent in the face of historical lies. Do not be indifferent when you see the past being exploited for the needs of contemporary politics. Do not be indifferent when any minority suffers discrimination. For it's the essence of democracy that the majority wields the power, but at the same time, the rights of the minority must be respected."
Marian Turski- former prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp
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