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	Euphemisms and Obfuscations

laceym

4-13-2007 4:02 PM

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laceym says:

Renaming and Relabeling. How to speak so that you don't offend.

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4-14-2007 10:52 AM

strider72

Actually, I see Home Schooling as a method protecting or insulating children from government/socialist indoctrination.

(...and I'm not even remotely religious!

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