Posted on 11/29/2015 12:19:07 PM PST by bgill
When Texas middle schooler Jordan Wooley recently highlighted a reading assignment that required students to deny God, school administrators, her teacher, and some students painted her as a liar.
But a flood of support from residents across the state, including and Gov. Greg Abbott, is buoying her spirits as she heads to the Governor’s Mansion Saturday to share her story.
Wooley, 12, testified before the Katy Independent School Board last Monday about a reading assignment at West Memorial Junior High in which her teacher instructed students to label statements as fact, opinion or commonplace assertion, which her teacher characterized as a myth.
When Wooley and numerous other students answered fact to the statement “There is a God,†the teacher told them they’re wrong, God is a myth, Wooley said.
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Smells like the school pulled down the teacher, Ms. Angelic Silguero's, online school pages - http://staff.katyisd.org/sites/1561000/Pages/documents.aspx
It would seem a gubernatorial response to middle school students of other religions presidentially invited to the White House for simulated bombs
In yer face, Clockhmed!!
Is it me or was the entire assignment INSANE and not in any way related to teaching a child to think, spell, write or do arithmetic?? Dear God. They could be learning “cursive” if they weren’t being given these illiterate assignments.
better than some ISIS kid claiming a bunch of wires was a ‘clock’. When will Klownie the kenyan invite Jordan as a guest? (s/)
No its not just you. A moronic teacher telling a kid that God is a myth should be grounds for termination, graded or not.
Please conservatives! Wake up!
It is impossible to reform these K-12 indoctrination centers. When in the history of mankind has it been possible to reform a government-run cartel monopoly? Answer: NEVER!
We must begin the the process of privatizing all education in this nation. Do this and the Marxist-run colleges of “education” will also wither and disappear.
Discussing God in any way is for a college course in Philosophy - not for 12 year olds. And there was an anti-American question thrown in that’s gotten lost in the shuffle. “Is America the greatest country on earth” type of question. A double-myth, I suppose.
Governor Abbott didn’t invite clockboy.
The left believes in the right to insult religion but not in the right to say something positive. At least if the religion is Christian or Jewish.
Nice! If that terrorist (or technically, future terrorist) can bring an imitation bomb into school and then meet with the President, it seems only fair that someone that is attacked because of her religion can meet with her governor.
I think the assignment was to teach critical thinking skills. the problem is that the teacher probably a atheist and used the assignment to impose her belief system. The mistake that was made was using a religious belief system as a test on whether someone knows the difference between fact or fiction. A better question would be stage magic real or not real. basically the idea was to teach logic skills to young children.
“I think the assignment was to teach critical thinking skills.”
Then, the teacher failed the test.
The existence or non-existence of God cannot be proven or disproven “scientifically”. It was wrong to assert that the existence of God is a myth — because the teacher has no way of disproving the existence of God.
This reminds me of the teacher that blew up the kids that didn’t be live the Climate Change Hoax. I bet this “teacher” wishes that she had a button to blow up Christian kids.
1010 Blowing Up Kids is Funny: http://youtu.be/u0rYN0B5xNM
The teacher, Ms. Angelic Silguero, should be reprimanded and punished by having her recite “Allah is a myth!” one hundred times in front of a local mosque. So she’ll see what it feels like when she tormented that poor girl in class.
agree
Except the questions were around God and America - which immediately sent up a red flag that this was not about logic-teaching but, of course, indoctrination. Or undermining a child’s belief in a supernatural being and his faith in his own country. Undermine those and you have the potential for a future bad citizen. Just like those brats at the U of Missouri.
Why won’t they name the teacher?
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