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| | Message on public education: Our public schools: inclusive mission brings us all together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | We are exhorted, "to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke." (Isaiah 58:6) Oppression and injustice as addressed in Isaiah are social pathologies of repressive communities, and the redress of these injustices will depend on a community response. |
 | | In a 1980 UCC resource, Malcolm Warford interprets the mutuality implied in the concept of the public: "At the heart of the public is a set of personal, social and economic relationships that exist between ourselves and others. |
 | | Our UCC heritage and our theology, on the other hand, would cause us to value public education as an institution tightly interwoven with the dynamics of the family, with the dynamics of economic opportunity and race, with other social institutions, and with faith communities as formative influences. |
| www.ucc.org /justice/education/mpe1.htm (2680 words) |
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