Religion in the Classroom {Southern Baptist Discontent with Public Schools}

Lubbock, TX, Avalanche-Journal ^ | 01-01-05 | Mansfield, Duncan, AP

[cyborg]

Good. Let them leave. Give up the public schools to their sin. The only problem is that we have to deal with the products of public schools afterwards if we do this.

[keithtoo]

My three kids have never set foot in a Government school, and they never will.

[ddantas]

Give up the public schools to their sin.

Think of it as the reciprocity test. If your kid had a Muslim teacher, would you wanting the teacher leading prayers to Allah before each class? If your kid had a Hindu teacher, would you want Hindu god-statues scattered across the classroom? Why then are people so upset when Christian teachers are forbidden from doing similar things?

[ladylib]

It's a wake-up call that public schools should heed if they want to stay in business.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

At least children would be getting a better education being homeschooled than the one (or lack thereof) they are getting in government schools.

[Bahbah]

"I didn't want the resolution to be portrayed as attacking public education."

I don't know why not.

[Grendel9]

At this rate, poor and middle class Atheists/
Muslims/Buddhists/et al. will receive training
in Public Schools (supported by our taxes)while
all Christian Kiddoes will be posited in costly
parochial schools.

Seems to me the only ones benefitting will be
the wealthy parents who already send their kids
to posh private schools!

The cheaper and more logical stance would be
to make that segment of Science classes dealing
with Creationism a mandatory option for the
fundamental Christian family. As a retired
teacher on both the elementary and secondary
level, I don't recall The Big Bang Theory
ever taking up more than a week of the curriculum.

By the time a child enters College, he should have
sufficient mental acuity to decide for himself
which Beginning he accedes to.

[stopem]

They will "stay in business" because they are funded and we taxpayers have to foot the bill for all those illegal's kids.

[borntobeagle]

I respectfully disagree. Homeschooling is not an option for everyone.

If the Churches want to create alternative schools, that is wonderful. My hope is that the Baptists that want out of PS's will provide choices like private schooling or homeschooling.

[eccentric]

It's time to acknowledge that hundreds of families cannot be shoved into a building and expected to agree on how to educate their children. The ONLY ones who can't figure this out are the teachers unions and those paid by them.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The only problem is that we have to deal with the products of public schools afterwards if we do this.

It's not like you are saving them by staying. Why go down with the ship? Worse, why let your children go down with the ship? My son knows "free" schools will not be an option for his children. They just do not care about his values.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

They will probably have to set foot in public school to take a standardized test eventually. I just meant he college tests, ACT & SAT.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

They will "stay in business" because they are funded and we taxpayers have to foot the bill for all those illegal's kids.

Exactly. And we must fund the corrupting of the minds of those children unlucky enough to be born to liberals (the ones they didn't kill before birth).

[ladylib]

Some will stay in business (for the illegals and for those who either don't want or can't afford private schools) and others will close down completely.

[ddantas]

They will probably have to set foot in public school to take a standardized test eventually. I just meant he college tests, ACT & SAT.

Not necessarily, I was homeschooled and took the SAT at a private Christian school.

[stopem]

Right, good point....so what do we taxpayers do about this?

[RadioAstronomer]

The cheaper and more logical stance would be to make that segment of Science classes dealing with Creationism a mandatory option for the fundamental Christian family.

If that is the case, do not forget to add a mandatory segment of the science class for each of the following; Hinduism, Hopi, Norse, Greek, Roman, Baal, Sumerian, Babylonian, Mithraism, any of the Polynesian origin mythos, Egyptian, Eskimo, Mayan, and any others I didn't think of off the top of my head.

Hmmm… I wonder if they will have time to teach what a molecule is?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

As a Christian parent, science class is the least of my worries, though I don't like that at all. It's everything else that really bugs me. Kids around here make comments like "most of the kids at my school are bisexual." One girl talks about the "XYZ" kid who puts an X on the calendar for the days he likes girls, a Y for the days he likes boys, and a Z for the days he likes both.

Some kids had to go to the theater and watch The Hours as a class assignment. I could go on and on. And it could get FAR more personal -- about members of my own family (so I will refrain).

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Not necessarily, I was homeschooled and took the SAT at a private Christian school.

True. But on on one test, at least for that specific testing day, my son had to take it at the public high school.