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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.

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?

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).

19 posted on 01/01/2005 8:26:48 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)

I can tell you from personal experience that you are quite wrong to assume that the only children that are in private Christian schools or are home schooled are wealthy. We sacrificed to the point that we will never be able to retire comfortably in order to send our children to a private school.

Our seven grandchildren have never seen the inside of a government school and the older ones have full scholarships to the University.

I would starve to death before we would let government teachers get into the minds of our little ones.