Yes, I know it’s a cliche, but I could not stop from gawking at the screen.
Judge: La. schools must stop Bible giveaways
You get the general idea from the title, and please feel free to read the article, but here’s a couple of quotes that stuck out to me:
The ACLU filed the lawsuit for an anonymous family whose daughter said she felt pressured into taking a Bible because she was afraid her classmates would call her a “devil-worshipper” and think she didn’t believe in God. The girl was called Jane Roe and her father John Roe out of fear of retaliation by schoolmates and neighbors, the ACLU has said.
Right, btdt. Ask Amy about being told many, many times she was going to hell by other students.
However, the judge wrote, even procedures upheld as neutral for secondary-school students might be out of bounds for “an impressionable young elementary-age child.”
This is why there is no Christian Athlete groups in elementary school, but later, right?
Grade-school children might not understand that the school board was not endorsing any of the materials, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal said in that case.
At Loranger, the table outside the principal’s office also created the impression that the school was endorsing Christianity, Barbier wrote.
This is exactly my point. Shall I back up to my daughter’s choir concert? To have a representative of the school, specifically a teacher, stand before an auditorium and to use the phrase, “the true meaning of the season,” in reference to the religious music being sung, that constitutes a public school endorsement of one religion over another. I did not have a big problem with the music. I told my daughter, it’s like a play – you wouldn’t necessarily be a murderer in real life, but if it’s written into the part, I expect you to do your best at it. My issue was the endorsement, and the fiasco that followed.
Regardless of their personal beliefs, our educators needs to be a bit more sensitive to the fact that their students do not have the same beliefs. What if you were the only redhead in a classroom full of blondes, and the teacher made the comment that she really liked blonde hair. You would feel left out, wouldn’t you? You would feel like she prefers other students to you, even though your hair has nothing to do with your capacity to learn. Following me here?
But my jaw truly dropped when I read the survey results following the article. Two-thirds of those who voted in the informal poll disagreed with the decision! And to those two-thirds, I would like to pose this question, would your answer change if the table was full of free copies of the Qu’ran?*
And ftr, I have nothing against the Qu’ran. I am strictly using it as an example. I strongly advocate educating oneself of every religious view one can.
