[Superman]

I vigorously support parents' right to control what their children are told and asked. But some of you are not going to understand what I'm going to say next, and so you will also not like it.

First, the Ninth District Cout of Appeals has been making head-scratching decisions for decades, and has disappointed left leaners AT LEAST as often as right-leaners. Mul, not everything is a leftist, commie pinko plot.

It looks to me like the Court was not making a ruling on whether parents can have this right. It looked at whether the Constitution has already pre-empted this issue. Some of you guys need to separate your notions of what's right and wrong, and what's good and bad.....from what's legal and illegal. It's convenient to assume there is a one-to-one relationship, but there is not.

And finally, I've never been comfortable with over-generalizations and universal proclamations. All generalizations are false. (yep, that's a joke also) Our public schools do indeed graduate students who can read and write. Frankly, if you ask any serious professional public school teacher what the biggest source of problems with students these days you're likely to hear it's the parents. Im quite confident that Moses is raising responsible young people. But I'm just as confident that at the nearest public high school to his house there is a substantial proportion of students who teachers virtually cannot teach, for one reason or another, and whose parents will not meet with the teachers, will not talk to their kids about drugs or sex, and very possibly who use drugs and lead a lowlife lifestyle themselves. Remember all those lazy freeloaders out there that you whine about sucking from the public teat? Well, they have kids, and their kids go to public schools.

And frankly, if parents are not going to talk to their kids about these things, then someone else has to.