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From: John Shepard 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:46 AM
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Remember, lurking in the new Community Activity Centers, is the shadowy
plan for expansive school-based health clinics which will offer abortion
counseling (without parental counsel or knowledge), contraceptives, and
ultimately, abortions, to not just students at the school where the
clinics are based, but local indigents within the specified geographic
area which the clinics are mandated to cover.


Will the school's medical staff serve at the command of the principal?
Will the principal answer to a superintendent of schools or a medical
czar with co-command of the schools?  Or both?


Will there be extensive federal intervention that will steamroll over
state and local control of the schools?


You betcha.


And by then, STW and OBE will seem tame.


As an afterthought I note that in Switzerland, where clean needles are
furnished -- not to facilitate drug use of course -- but to ensure that
those who DO use drugs and need needles will have clean needles to help
prevent infections (this makes sense to the left) noted that even after
issuing gazillions of new clean needles and syringes, drug users --
ubiquitous now, especially in urban parks -- were getting ill and some
even died from impure heroin.


Wellsir, the Swiss government stepped in and provided pure, free heroin
to the drugs users.  (No wonder they're so happy!)


Wish I were making that up.


So there are indeed expansive new vistas possible in a brave, new,
federalized public education system.


And "community-based health centers" are a good start.


Question:  Do we really want our public schools to take this on?  Isn't
this a confusion of missions?


Best//John
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http://oeri3.ed.gov/inits/construction/fact-sheet-hr4094.html


Zalee Harris asked recently if anyone knew about designs, etc. for new 

school buildings. Apparently, she'd gotten a hint that the federal 
construction monies to build local schools might carry along mandates on 
how to build and design them.


I wrote in HR 4094, which is the federal sch. construction bill, on the new 

gov. URL.  Up popped this page.  I also went on all links on the bottom of 
it, for example, School Design, etc. and kept reading other links.


I get the distinct impression the federal government, without mandating it 
in the bill (HR 4094) itself, is strongly  "suggesting" to the states and 
locals what kind of schools should be built with the federal bond money. 
And guess what rears its ugly head, the old Community Education scheme, 
which proferred a multi-use school for all community services.  Sec't Riley 
in one link even refers to and thanks our old friend Stewart Mott from 
Flint, MI, Community Ed infamy. Also at one point VP Gore's Livable 
Communities Initiative issued from the White House (a kind of VP Executive 
Order) came up, which pushed Sustainable Communities.


It looks like a backdoor approach to get what the feds couldn't get years 
ago - multi-services areas in the new schools. This might also fit into One 
Stop Workshop Development Centers. Also might be a rehash of Educational 
Parks (60s and 70s), which thinking back now on it, might have been nothing 
more than Sustainable Communities before the phrase was fashionable. I 
remember in the 70s reading dozens of articles on Educational Park Schools 
and never being able to figure out if they were talking about just schools 
or whole communities.


Anyway, I thought the Loop should see this page. Joan Masters