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Originally Posted by Ark2
I have already stated that I would be fine with this, and I would hope that the schools would be explaining what communism and facism are as both of these ideologies have played a significant part of our history.
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Agreed, and so has Christianity. But there is a massive difference between having a discussion as part of the curriculum, and allowing a special interest group to use a school as a distribution method to reach young children.
To use your example: learning about communism in school is obviously a good thing. But allowing a pro-communist group to distribute literature solely to promote their cause would be completely inappropriate. "Special interest group X" shouldn't be given the ability to distribute literature to students - it doesn't matter who they are. Schools have a curriculum, and promoting ideas and beliefs outside of that is wrong. Learning
about religion, political ideologies, etc. is fine, but leave the zealotry out of it.
Or another example: Today we're learning about the political spectrum. And here's a bag full of materials from (insert political party here). It just isn't right.