Multiple choice

Choose the best completion of the following paragraph. Parochial education serves the dual functions of education and religious instruction, and church leaders are justifiably concerned to impart important religious values regarding relationships between the sexes. Thus, when the administrators of a parochial school system segregate boys and girls in separate institutions, they believe they are helping to keep the children pure by removing them from a source of temptation. If the administrators realized, however, that children would be more likely to develop the very attitudes they seek to engender in the company of the opposite sex, they would __________.

  1. put an end to all parochial education

  2. no longer insist upon separate schools for boys arid girls

  3. abolish all racial discrimination in the religious schools

  4. stop teaching foolish religious tripe, and concentrate instead on secular educational programs

  5. reinforce their policies of isolating the sexes in separate programs
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Explanation

(2) Careful reading of the paragraph shows that the author's attitude toward parochial education is that he believes the insistence on instruction in religious values is justifiable; he disagrees, however, on the question of how best to inculcate those values. He believes that the proper attitude toward relations between the sexes could best be learned by children in the company of the other sex.

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