[Vision2020] Goedde wants 'Atlas Shrugged' as required reading

[Art Deco]

We are paying the Idaho legislature how much a day for this?

w.


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of KHQ at:
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> http://www.khq.com/story/20973423/goedde-wants-atlas-shrugged-as-required-reading
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> Goedde wants 'Atlas Shrugged' as required reading
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> BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Education Committee says he
> would like to require Idaho high school students to read Ayn Rand's 1957
> novel "Atlas Shrugged" before graduating.
>
> GOP Sen. John Goedde of Coeur d'Alene is only half serious.
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> In a tongue & cheek moment during Tuesday's education committee meeting,
> Goedde introduced legislation to make the novel required reading and that
> students pass a test on it.
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> Goedde says the novel that's become must-read material for libertarians
> could stimulate lively debate in high schools. He also credited the book
> for turning his son Brian a Republican.
>
> The committee agreed to introduce the bill. But Goedde says he has no
> intention of moving it along, saying he did it partially in jest and out of
> frustration over voters rejecting online course requirements last fall.
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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