My job is to teach math to young people. I try my hardest to do that while demonstrating a paternal-type love for my students. I encourage them to work hard in all their academic endeavors, to be kind to classmates and courteous to the people they see in our school, to dream beyond their mostly meager circumstances. If questioned about my spiritual beliefs, I refer them to their parent(s) for religious instruction and guidance, as that is where that discussion needs to take place.
I don't "sneak" anything in. The kids know I pray every morning during our moment of silence. I try to be a good male role model, because so many of my students don't have one, but formal religious instruction is not my job. Those are family concerns.
Do people in other professions use their position over subordinates to preach? Is it expected? Is a plumber a godless man if he fails to testify to the power of Christ before he fixes a leaky pipe?
A plumber is not working on the hearts, minds, and souls of children. The last I checked, my household or business plumbing did not have eternal souls.
And...it is impossible to provide an education that doesn’t influence the hearts, minds, and souls of children. A religiously neutral education is impossible!!!!
When teachers agree to teach children they **are** agreeing to influence the direction that the hearts, minds, and souls of children will take. It is impossible not to do otherwise. There are NO religiously neutral subjects, There are no religiously neutral schools. It is impossible.
Your classroom, that by law is godless in its worldview, is NOT religiously neutral in content or consequences for the children or our nation.
Socialism destroys the natural compassion and gratitude that God intended for his children to have one toward another. When children attend socialist-entitlement schools they are learning a **powerful** and ungodly lesson. They learn that the voting mob can take ( by threat of police force) money from their neighbor so that they can have tuition-free school. Where is the example of the compassion and generosity shown by their neighbor? Why would there be any opportunity to learn gratitude? Instead, the children risk learning that any voting mob powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to use police force to get **lots** of free stuff from their neighbor.
Honestly....I am perplexed that any Christian or conservative would agree to support, uphold, and establish such evil.
It’s too bad that those of us without children or those with children no longer in the system can’t get those taxes knocked off our bill. It might even be an incentive for a teacher, such as yourself, to set up his own homeschool foundation and get the like-minded parents involved in teaching. My sister-in-law homeschools their children and it has come at a great sacrifice in income, but the kids are smarter than public school kids, polite and Christians. And my brother and SIL say the loss of income has been worth it. Now, the eldest is off to college.