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RE: Ridiculous!
How ridiculous is this?
I'm not sure I see why this is so ridiculous. It's a high school class, so I think the subject matter is ok as long as its not requiring them to acknowledge an opinion as truth (e.g., in a test). The transcript states:
... seems fair enough to me. Religion is a real thing, regardless of its truth. Don't you think it's healthy for a student to be able to engage in a discussion like this in public? To be able to hear the arguments of a believer and a doubter? Again, it doesn't mean that students should be accountable for such conversations, but it doesn't mean that they should be banned either.
And let's be fair, the quote in the news post is completely taken out of context. It's quoted as if the teacher were preaching this to his class, and not in the context of a back and forth "what if" conversation that's actually occurring. Read the transcript and you'll see what I mean.
So, I think the practice of Yoga on a regular basis is more questionable than an off-topic, two-sided religion conversation in a high school history (not science) classroom (though I wouldn't ban yoga either). With the yoga, it seems like it was a requirement. This conversation was not.
maybe the schoolboard consists of a bunch of ignorant, angry, Jesus flinging people like this guy!
It's funny, religious people love to oversimplify things so they can draw conclusions without facts and they often get called on it. Even funnier is when the people calling them on it are guilty of the same practice. Hypocrisy at its finest.
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