Free Speech is already a “hate crime” in Canada. And many people in the WH agree. So calling the bible a “hate crime” isn’t so far-fetched to these people.
Well, I think it’s a hate crime whenever I see a muzz on the train reading that little paperback filled with chickenscratch.
She’s an evolutionist. Behaving with common decency and morals doesn’t matter to them; she has the power, therefore she should win, this is the message of Darwinism.
there ya go agin’..flashing a crucifix at old Nick....definitely a hate crime.
I take it that Melissa Hussain, is another peace loving TOLERANT Muslin now polluting minds of kids. FIRE HER. Better yet, DEPORT her. Send HER a message.
If it had been a Christian teacher and a gay kid, the teacher would have had to sit there and take it.
Good for the kids though, in refusing to be indoctrinated.
She sounds mentally unstable.
With a first name like “Melissa”, I wonder what her maiden name is? Or, did she disdain that so much that she had to change it?
She is not acting like a teacher...should’ve ignored it.
What awesome kids, to not be bullied by this obviously close-minded ‘teacher’ (actually bigot).
oh, brother. Hussain? Hmmmmm
She complained about students singing “Jesus Loves Me” and wearing Jesus T-shirts.
Kids figured out how to push a hysteric over the edge.
I’m going to contrast that story to what happened in our 6th-grade class in the late 50s. I know, I know, but...
At our elementary school, both the kids and the faculty were about half Jews and half Christians. There were two 6th-grade classes in the school; one taught by a Jewish lady, and the other by a Christian lady.
According to the customs of the time, we saluted the flag every day, said the Lord’s Prayer (some of the kids said the words and others stood silently) and were read a passage from the Bible every day, sometimes the Old Testament (Jewish Bible), sometimes the New Testament (Christian Bible). Our teacher read from a tattered black Bible.
In December, we decorated the school for Christmas and Hannukah, and learned Christmas carols and Hannukah songs for the yearly concert. It was commonplace for the girls to wear a cross or a Star of David around their necks, and most of us were familiar with many Yiddish expressions, as well as the main holidays of both religions.
The year that we were to “graduate” from 6th grade, a group of us, both Christians and Jews, discussed what gift we would give our teacher — a bunch of red roses or a new Bible. Ultimately we appointed one kid to ask her which she wanted. She opted for the Bible, and we chose one covered in white leather, with gold leaf on the edges of the pages, had the store emboss her name on the cover in gold, and presented it to her on our last day of elementary school.
Thirty-five years later, we had a wonderful reunion, attended by about half of the class and their spouses. Most had married within our respective religions, handful had “married out”, and one girl had not married. The organizers read a letter from our much-loved teacher. She had moved across the country to be with her grandchildren. Then in her 80s, her letter recalled many of her pleasant memories of individuals in our class, and also jokingly thanked us again for having given her the Bible instead of the red roses, since she still had it. Even though our generation was the vanguard of the Youth Rebellion, her mention of the Bible brought out no negative comments at the reunion.
Now that I had her address, and knowing I would be traveling out west that summer, I decided to go the 500 miles out of my way to see her.
Although I hadn’t seen her since I was 11, and was then 46, she recognized me instantly. I gave her our alternate class gift that day, a big bunch of red roses. She showed me the now-worn white Bible, saying how much it had meant to her, and that she had loaned it to both her daughter and her granddaughter to carry under their bouquets at their weddings.
She also related how she had become a teacher. At the beginning of the post-WW2 Baby Boom, there was such a demand for teachers that she was recruited although she had no formal education credentials, having formerly been a college graduate, but an office worker. This news shocked me, since she was one of our district’s best teachers of all from K to 12.
She said she felt apprehensive about taking the job with no specific education training, so she had called her father and asked him what to do.
“Just love the children,” he replied. I can tell you, that is exactly what she did. By that I do not mean what today’s gutter minds might be thinking.
She was kind, caring, conscientious, pleasant and enthusiastic, naturally commanding respect and good behavior. She made the lessons fun and interesting. She encouraged each child, no matter what they were like (a couple of our classmates would today have been Special Ed); and we knew she would have permitted no bullying. She made special small groups for kids interested in various topics. A few weeks into the term, a black child entered our class for the first time in school district history, and she was as supportive of him as of any of us. While most of the white children’s parents were executives, government employees or professionals, he was the child of the school janitor. Today he is a lawyer.
That teacher’s guiding principles and selfless love for others came from the religious traditions expressed in the Bible. For generations, until the 1960s, it was the one book found in every American home and classroom. I realize this sounds like an article from a religious magazine; however, this is my actual experience of growing up in the DC area in America as it once was.
Instead of crying “Hate crime” she should have said “You flunk”. Much more effective.
These liberals act like a Bible and religion are mirrors and spikes to Dracula.
She’s gaming the system. She doesn’t give a rat’s fart about bibles or evolution. She has her eye on the tax-payer-funded ball.
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A Muslim pretending and acting.
A good teacher finds that any happening is a good opportunity to teach!
Mel