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Wrong place. Wrong Time.

Comment comment by gnifyus on 18 December 2006

This teacher needed to stick to the curriculum that he was hired to teach. If he didn’t agree with the curriculum to that degree, he should not have taken the job. There are probably plenty of private parochial schools in this area where he would have been much more suited to preach rather than teach; or he should have taken up ministry.

It is O.K. by me for the facts about different religions to be taught in an informative way in public schools. In our junior high they do this by presenting each major world religion, the beliefs they contain, and the culture that ensues from them. The students are encouraged to pick any one of them and do an informative presentation on it. But no one (that I have heard) has tried to force any one religion down the student’s throats. It is treated as information only; the belief part of it is left for home.

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RE: Wrong place. Wrong Time. by scottb :: NR7

It is O.K. by me for the facts about different religions to be taught in an informative way in public schools.

Well, with one caveat: not in science class. The facts about religions are fine in history classes, not biology or physics.

In our junior high they do this by presenting each major world religion, the beliefs they contain, and the culture that ensues from them.

Do they cover Christianity in essentially the same way? That'd be pretty unusual - the "usual" approach is to skip Christianity on the grounds that the students are "already familiar" with it. Though the real reason is that by leaving Christianity out, the coverage of the other religions is done in the same tones as coverage of classical mythology - the "nobody believes this anymore, but in the old days they used to think..." kind of tone. You can pretend you're being "fair and balanced" and convey a really strong subtext of "these other religions are wrong".

If you take that tone on the subject of Christianity, the fundies cry foul.

Religion doesn't belong in the classroom. America is an athiest nation - love it or leave it.

Posted 19 December 2006, Hide, Parent, Reply