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HB 2166 Certain universally held educational principles.

Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Certain universally held principles. Requires all school boards in Virginia to distribute to every student in the Commonwealth copies of the appendix from The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis (copyright 1944 by the Macmillan Company) and sets forth this document. The bill notes, in its preamble, that many of the world’s civilizations have developed similar philosophies, religions, and legal systems, and that it is well to acknowledge our similarities and parallelisms rather than our differences and disagreements.


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