Posted on 05/23/2015 4:46:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
My guess?
The parents are foolishly enlisting a child as a warrior in the culture wars.
Christ didn't use kids as missionaries. Parents shouldn't either. Missionary work is a grown-up job for big boys and girls.
Gee! It is a shame. Homeschooling is the best and most natural way to rear a child to successful adulthood. You right, though, not everyone can homeschool or private school ( a second best option).
Some children will need to be institutionalized for their schooling. We need orphanages, too, but no one is claim that this is the best way to rear a child.
suppurates = SUPPORTS
Some kids will need to be institutionalized for their schooling. A shame, but true.
suppurates = SUPPORTS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sitting here chuckling! :-)
Suppurates is a perfectly good word to apply to government schooling!
The Liberty Institute May 20, 2015, letter to Somerset Acadrmy officials discusses the student's First Amendment rights. The letter also includes the "demand that, within ten (10) days of this letter, Somerset Academy issue a written apology to Mackenzie Fraiser and permit her to re-submit her original presentation, inclusive of the expression of her religious beliefs. Absent such written apology and assurance that students in Somerset Academy may express their religious beliefs in their school assignments, our client is prepared to take legal action against Somerset Academy, seeking all appropriate and available relief in order to preserve Mackenzie’s constitutional and statutory rights under federal and Nevada law."
According to a May 22 FoxNews report: UPDATE: Somerset Academy issued a formal written apology to 12-year-old Mackenzie Fraiser late Friday for denying her the right to use a Bible verse in a class assignment. School officials have now agreed to allow the sixth-grader to resubmit her original project, this time with her favorite Bible verse -- John 3:16 -- included."
"Re [Student]'s slide dealing with Scriptural inspiration:
STET! Otherwise, we will all meet in court -- with each of you, personally, named as defendants."
Most people who profess to be unqualified simply think they have more important things to do than raise their children. Children are a pain in the butt anyway- it's nice to be able to get rid of them for the day. And there is after school day care and before school care and 3k and everything. You don't even have to feed them any more. The state takes care of that.
Yes, your lifestyle might decrease, a bit... you might have to give up that new Mercedes every year, but it us worth it. Even you, as the parent, can learn from it.
That was a good one! :-)
That is bovine excrement!! You must be a public school administrator.
ExCTCitizen, if you really are a Christian, you do not judge other Christians for doing the best they can in the situation life has handed them.
Being able to homeschool is a blessing, not a litmus test for being a Christian.
Wrong? I could have never home schooled my children. I was never able to help them with their home work, as I was educated in Germany which has a different system. For example pencils are only allowed for drawing and loose papers are not allowed at all. Each subject has to be in a separate Notebook. When homework is given it has to be done at home, and the teacher goes through it the next morning or the following Monday depending if he or she assigns the homework during the week or the weekend. Homework is not for finishing work at home that should be finished during school hours.
Though the cross is perhaps what upsets them the most, other Christian religious symbols also have some effect, like The Holy Bible, and even Holy Water. Which leads to a funny anecdote you might enjoy.
A long time ago I paid a visit to a very old Catholic church on an Indian reservation, still used as a Catholic elementary school and church, and they also have a nice gift shop for tourists, of which they get many. And one of the items there were empty small plastic bottles labeled Holy Water. They had a stainless steel tank with Holy Water in it that could be used to fill the bottles, but I left mine empty.
Weeks later, I was making some habanero pepper picante, and had about an extra half cup of habanero juice. Not having a small, well sealed bottle on hand, I put it in the Holy Water bottle, with the idea of providing some of my hot pepper aficionado friends a sample of what my extremely hot picante would taste like, when I met them later at a coffee shop.
That evening, at the coffee shop, I saw a group of unhappy, Gothic dressed children, all wearing black of course. Their leader, an older boy, professed to be a Satanist and wannabee vampire. He was a rotter, and he was leading the others astray. I didn’t care for him at all.
In any event, we got to talking, and the older boy’s bragging and pretense of menace finally annoyed me enough to ask if he was repelled by symbols of Christianity.
This set him off, saying he was such powerful “eevil” that he was impervious to such things. So I pulled out the bottle of “Holy Water”, showing the label to him and his little friends. So, it wouldn’t hurt you if I sprinkled this on you? Of course not!, he proclaimed.
So I gave him some good splashes, trying to avoid his eyes, being a nice guy.
He immediately went into a Jekyll and Hyde routine, as if the Holy Water was burning him. Then he stopped and regained his composure, and said, see, it has no power over me!
And then the habanero juice kicked in.
After a far more realistic performance of great pain and confusion, he ran off screaming into the night, while his surprised little friends started reevaluating their relationship with him.
I don’t even know anyone who drives a Mercedes, let alone a new one every year. This must be an issue in a better class of people than those who reside in our town.
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