Posted on 06/24/2023 2:53:43 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Parents of an Ohio fifth-grader say their son’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was coerced during class into making a pagan idol, that is, the likeness of a spirit worshiped by Native Americans.
Students at one of Lexington Local Schools’ elementary institutions were instructed in class to make a Kachina doll, used by the Hopi Indians as a “sacred object” to teach children about spirits believed to have “special powers,” such as curing the sick, as the class worksheet explains.
“What type of luck does your doll bring?” says the worksheet, which instructs the students to create the doll using the outline of a mask and then to “write about your Kachina doll’s powers.”
Benjamin and Amie Mutti practice the Messianic Jewish faith, according to which creating idols is a grave violation of God’s Commandments.
A website on Native American culture explains that “Kachina dolls are made in the image of various kachina spirits which the Hopi worship” and that Hopi children “are taught to regard the kachinas with a deep religious awe.”
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Yes. I was teachers aide in Biology and engineering/drafting that year. I was a little nerd so the mummy fascinated me.I can’t tell you all the teacher said but it was memorable.
Later when dissecting cadavers I’d sometimes think about the mummy and how it was preserved.
But for religious stuff I we had nothing in High School. We had Bible studies and intermingled culturally but that was all from families and friends and outside interests.
Of all the books I’ve read, I never read The Scarlett Letter.
HINT: It ain't you!
Statues of Mary, Jesus, and the Saints aren’t worshiped ...but....certainly aren’t religious neutral.
“I don’t think this lesson is bad as it sounds. Back when I was teaching in the 70s, we studied Indian culture and made stuff like this.”
Agreed, same here. It gave some context to the lesson plan, used our imagination, and we learned about history.
Then dodge ball on the playground! Ah, to be young again.....
The public school system is evil and must be destroyed.
OK, that was funny.
IBTZ
Troll somewhere else.
Christianity got chased out of the schools decades ago (ostensibly because of a cherry-picked and misquoted snippet of a letter from Jefferson, decades after the country was founded; and ignoring that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution).
It is inconsistent then to shoehorn in other religious practices under the guise of “social studies”.
WTF cares about masks from hundreds of years ago, that children should have it presented to them as valid, and enjoined to participate?
You win the thread.
Hundreds of years ago??
the Hopi still hold Kachinas as sacred.
They still do traditional dances in all the Kacchina regalia.
I ask “What is the diffeerence in discussing the different blessings of the Kachinas, which ‘are a thing’, and all the propwash told for the imaginary Pokemon cartoon characters?”
Yes. My class loved dodge ball. Even the fat kids.
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