Pinkerton is within its rights to spearhead a private initiative of this sort, no matter how philisophically repulsive, I expect that they will look morally superior and civically concerned all the way to the bank. However,schools which are funded with public money (ie YOUR tax $s) should not be allowed to spend any of the aforesaid $s on this type of nonsense. So, make a fuss! E-mail your congressman, your state rep., your school board and anyone else you can think of and copy the ACLU (www.aclu.org) and all the news magazines (60 minutes, 20/20 etc.) So few people actually bother to write to their various reps. about things which disturb them and yet it takes very little time. This board (which has a fairly narrow readership) has received about 200 posts in an hour on the subject, if your congressman got 200 e-mails in a DAY on a given subject it would be construed as a "hot topic". Try it, it's fun and satisfying to make a fuss for a good reason.
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Pinkerton is within its rights to spearhead a private initiative of this sort, no matter how philisophically repulsive, I expect that they will look morally superior and civically concerned all the way to the bank. However,schools which are funded with public money (ie YOUR tax $s) should not be allowed to spend any of the aforesaid $s on this type of nonsense. So, make a fuss! E-mail your congressman, your state rep., your school board and anyone else you can think of and copy the ACLU (www.aclu.org) and all the news magazines (60 minutes, 20/20 etc.) So few people actually bother to write to their various reps. about things which disturb them and yet it takes very little time. This board (which has a fairly narrow readership) has received about 200 posts in an hour on the subject, if your congressman got 200 e-mails in a DAY on a given subject it would be construed as a "hot topic". Try it, it's fun and satisfying to make a fuss for a good reason.