Religious Holidays in Public Schools

Corkey · 07-24-2010, 07:11 PM

Unless all religions are given equal access I don't see it being a good thing.
1. Who would teach this class?
2. Would students be required to attend?
3. What if a parent was opposed to mandatory class?
4. Would atheists be excluded?
5. Would a scientific approach be utilized, i.e., the world wasn't created in 6 days, humans didn't live at the same time as dinosaurs, and tell the real truth of evolution?

I maintain school and church don't belong together. If parents want to teach their children religion, they need to do so at home.
We need critical thinking and the math and sciences to be pushed in school, not mysticism, faith, or speculation of a God. Our children are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. Religion has dumbed down the education of the children of this country.
Oh and most of our founding fathers were Deists not Christians. They placed separation of church and state in the Constitution for a reason.

While I agree that theology is an important undertaking, I oppose it being taught in primary and high school.

View Poll Results: what do you think about adding holidays to school calendars?
I think we need to be more inclusive and add other religious holidays	39	41.49%
I think we need to pare it down, we have too many	11	11.70%
I think we need to take all religious holidays out of public school calendars	27	28.72%
I don't care	17	18.09%
Voters: 94. You may not vote on this poll

07-24-2010, 07:11 PM	#1
Corkey Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Human Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Very Married Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Where I want to be Posts: 8,155 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 47,491 Thanked 29,268 Times in 6,637 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Unless all religions are given equal access I don't see it being a good thing. 1. Who would teach this class? 2. Would students be required to attend? 3. What if a parent was opposed to mandatory class? 4. Would atheists be excluded? 5. Would a scientific approach be utilized, i.e., the world wasn't created in 6 days, humans didn't live at the same time as dinosaurs, and tell the real truth of evolution? I maintain school and church don't belong together. If parents want to teach their children religion, they need to do so at home. We need critical thinking and the math and sciences to be pushed in school, not mysticism, faith, or speculation of a God. Our children are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. Religion has dumbed down the education of the children of this country. Oh and most of our founding fathers were Deists not Christians. They placed separation of church and state in the Constitution for a reason. While I agree that theology is an important undertaking, I oppose it being taught in primary and high school. __________________ "Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them". ~Old Tassel, Chief of the Tsalagi (Cherokee)