[Vision2020] Flags and Portraits

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (December 5, 2005) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with a special
thinks to Nick Gier.

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Flags and Portraits

Tom Garfield (Opinion, Nov. 9) claims that Logos School does not own, let
alone hang, a portrait of Robert E. Lee at Logos School. A picture of Lee's
portrait in a Logos classroom has been posted as "Lies at Logos" on Moscow's
Vision2020 (Nov. 20), so perhaps Garfield can explain the discrepancy. 
Garfield also states that Logos School would use the Confederate flag for
teaching purposes only, but I have it on good authority that the flag has
been displayed in Logos classrooms, social functions and during Doug
Wilson's Sunday sermons. 

Readers will recall a recent letter (Letters, Nov. 22) from a local band
that refused to play at a Wilson function until a huge Confederate flag was
taken down. 

Garfield also says that Wilson does not physically own Logos School, but
that was not my point at all. Wilson can be the founder and leader of
classical Christian education in America without actually owning a single
school. 

It is surely not a coincidence that the international headquarters of the
Association of Classical Christian Schools is right here in Moscow. On Jan.
31, 2004, Wilson was the keynote speaker for the annual ACCS meeting. He was
introduced as the founder of Logos School and New Saint Andrews College. 

In the spring of 2004 I got a call from the husband of a teacher at Cary
Christian School in Cary, an ACCS school in North Carolina. He was outraged
that Wilson's book condoning slavery was required reading at the school.
School board members also were required to read Wilson's book "The Case for
Classical Christian Education." 

The synergy between America's private religious and public schools has been
a very constructive one. But when preachers such as Wilson condemn
"government" schools and most other Christian schools, he polarizes
educational issues in a very destructive way. 

Nick Gier, Moscow

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Note to Anselm House "management":  You can take down the flag now. The war
is over.  Perhaps a more appropriate location for the flag would be inside a
wall urinal.  That way it is sure to get watered regularly.

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown