Not for the irrepressible Leary a rejection of the tools for enabling "each person to realize that he is not a game-playing robot put on this planet to be given a Social Security number and to be spun on the assembly line of school, college, career, insurance, funeral, goodbye," as he once told Playboy.
Before an assembly of his high school classmates last week, with all the fervor and high dudgeon only a pep rally can conjure, a football player from Nevada announced his commitment to play for the University of California.
It's been a long time since we've had any kind of assembly in school, getting us out of whatever stupid class we didn't want to go to in the first place (unless it's art or gym).
Rosales explained that at a national assembly of rural normal-school students held in Morelos in mid-September, before the disappearance, the Ayotzinapa School had been charged with the responsibility of providing temporarily commandeered buses to transport students to Mexico City on October 2nd.
He believed in getting the Assemblies of God schools accredited".
Former education secretary Charles Clarke this year urged the abolition of compulsory daily worship, saying "the decision about the form and character of school assemblies should be left to the governors of individual schools".
"The current requirement in statute for an act of collective worship should be abolished, and the decision about the form and character of school assemblies should be left to the governors of individual schools," he wrote.
These talks can be given at a series of school assemblies or evening events for the school community, or by posting videos on the school Web site or on a resource like SchoolTube.
He wrote: "The current requirement in statute for an act of collective worship should be abolished, and the decision about the form and character of school assemblies should be left to the governors of individual schools".
