Fritz was headed to East Stroudsburg with plans to meet with parents and school representatives there. It may seem odd to find a leading Separationist bending over backward to give government school officials the benefit of doubt. The alleged behavior of school personnel in this incident would only add fuel to the case for removing education from the hands of the state. Fritz, though, sees getting at the truth in such cases as crucial to the Separation movement. When I've researched some reported education horrors, they've often turned out to be one-sided, exaggerated, undocumented, and from sources that are not very credible, and even clearly erroneous.
Sloppiness sets back the cause.
When you make an invalid attack, it solidifies the education mainstream. They can point out that we're wrong on th e details, therefore we must be wrong on the big picture. After personally investigating, he determined that many of the teachers at the school were Christians and wore Christian jewelry themselves, and that the girl was asked not to wear the watch simply because she was playing with it too much in class and distracting others. My experience as a parent and as a child leads me to say that children are sometimes quite self-serving and inaccurate recorders of a situation. I want to clear up that remaining 20 percent doubt before adding this particular 'edu-horror' to the catalog of arguments for Separation.