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Article: Fairy tales are lessons in life.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- October 11, 2005
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Byline: Lori Borgman
Fairy tales are under the microscope. The child we subsidize with college tuition payments in hopes of one day becoming an elementary school teacher has informed us that there is a line of thinking that now considers fairy tales and folklore potentially harmful to children.
Let's see. On a national basis, we've been averaging about one teacher a month arrested for extra-curricular activities with under-age boys.
The childhood obesity rate is tipping the scales, yet most schools continue to serve pop, candy, fries and pizza for lunch in the cafeteria. Our math scores, on an international scale, don't quite add up. But we ...
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