[wintertime]

Those children who are religious will be denied instruction in their religious belief about the nature of falling objects. This has religious consequences. ( Dimensio)

To Dimensio.

Yes, the discussion of gravity DOES have religious consequences. There are parents who DO believe and want taught to their children that all things ( including) gravity were created by God. Discussing gravity devoid of the context of God is highly religiously offensive to them and undermines the religious principles being taught in the home.

I know that parents like this exist because I attended Catholic parochial school in the 1950s and this is indeed what we were taught by the nuns.

While today, I am no longer Catholic, and believe that gravity and all the principles of physics are eternal, I would NEVER use the threat of armed police to force it on other people's children. I would NOT threaten parents with foster care of their children if they did not subject their children to my anointed educational philosophy. I would NEVER send armed sheriffs to auction off the home or business of a neighbor who refused to fund my agenda.

However.....defenders of government schools do not share my scruples.

[Dimensio]

Discussing gravity devoid of the context of God is highly religiously offensive to them and undermines the religious principles being taught in the home.

It's one thing to be upset about being taught specifically that "God" did not create any and/or all things (including Gravity) but I think that someone who gets upset that a school simply not mentioning the word "God", which still would not contradict a parent telling their child that this God did create all things (including gravity) is suffering from severe mental instability.