I am shocked..... in a good way

To those of you christians that have kids in public school: has jesus been mentioned in their class at all or is it all about santa?
My daughter told me that her math teacher told the class about the crucifiction and birth of jesus today! wow, i am so impressed- this is a public school and i never would have expected it. I plan to call the teacher on monday just to show support.

 

that shouldnt be happening in a public school...i don't see why that would be discussed ina math class, if you want you kid to know that, read with them or send them to a sunday school...

 

sorry, but this is from a not a true christian ( i beleive He was God, but not the only way to salvation) and that is kinda why i don't beleive that...just clarification...

 

ya uh, actually my daughter is a christian as am i,and she has gone to sunday school many times.She already knows about the life of jesus- The point i was hoping to make is that God and jesus have pretty much been dismissed from this holiday, and i was happy to hear that a teacher has taken the bold step to bring the good message to these kids. Alot of children have no idea who jesus is, which is truly sad. they all know who ronald mcdonald is though dont they?

 

That is really awesome Delphinium!

 

What if some of the children aren't christian? Do their beliefs mean nothing?

 

What if the teacher had told a story about I dunno, like how satan is great or something, or about the goddess or some such non christian stuff.. You'd be upset wouldn't you?

 

that is the poiint i was trying to make...just not in such an attackful manner...


We hada french teacher, who i think was catholic or something ,we had to coax her opinion out of her whether she thought Joan of Arc was speaking to God or not...

 

I didn't mean it in an aggressive manner, more just curious...

 

im sure a few parents will make complaints on monday. I posted it because i feel it was a good thing, i dont understand why people feel the need to attack and get so defensive.

thanks epiphany

 

If you want christianity taught in schools it should be paralleled with some Nietzsche.

 

thats why lots of people look down on Christians, cause some often take a "holier than thou" approach (not saying tis any of you, so far you have all been very nice)

 

All I'm saying is of course YOU feel good, as it's YOUR religion... If it was someone elses religion being taught, that you didn't want your child being taught, I doubt you would be so happy about it.... That's the problem, no religion should be taught at a public school, christian, pagan, whatever...

 

That teacher needs to lose his/her job

That would hopefully teach the rest of you crazy Christians a lesson.

 

Maybe the teacher should have taught the true origins of Christmas, which is a pagan ritual, before moving on to the actual celebration today. But even then, only a history teacher, or history of religion teacher should be presenting that to his students. But a math teacher should be teaching math, and not about Jesus. I think it is interesting how christians are in complete support of their religion being taught in public schools, but when it is another religion they are all up in arms. That same thing happened in my public school, where a group of pagan kids started telling others about their holidays, and decorating their lockers with pagan symbolism rather than santa's and crosses like the other students. Boy did the school get some angry parents about that...

 

THEN JESUS WAS A LIAR because he claimed that HE WAS THE ONLY WAY. Your theory that all Gods lead to the same place is not good because the God's contradict each other by the way one gets to heaven.... is it by works or is it by grace?

 

Exactly, they're all happy about ti when it's their religion, but if it was something else, they'd be bitching and whining, besides, maybe they should have been learning about math, in math class...

 

Well in MY experience, in public schools, Christianity is the only religion NOT allowed to be discussed anymore. In fact the other week at a public elementary near where I live, they had a Christmas play, and in this Christmas play, they basically taught about what Christmas means to a bunch of different religions. The Christian portion was at the very end, and the school adminstrator had it taken out. So EVERY religion was represented in that play EXCEPT the Christians. THAT to me isn't fair, and it pissed a LOT of people off. In fact the school lost a major bond vote they needed to build a new school because just about EVERY parent, Christian AND otherwise, got pissed off. There were actually people of other religions in this town that were on tv talking about how stupid it was.

I am of the belief that everyone should be taught about all religions, what means what to what religion and such, if religion is going to be taught at all in a public school. Otherwise, NO religion should be allowed to be discussed. Of course I'd be happy to find out that someone is teaching about Jesus, but to be honest, I am perfectly aware of how those with children in the school that pratice another religion would feel, because I put myself in their shoes and try to think how I would feel if my child were being taught, say, pagan rituals but not Christan stuff in addition to it. So that is why I have the "all or nothing" view about teaching religion in school.

Personally, I think "all" is best.. because children need to know what different religions are about and it would help unify the community of the school as a whole, and hopefully cut down on a lot of religious prejudice. I mean all these kids are usually immersed in at home is their own religion.. more often than not the Christian children know no other religion except that they are all evil, and the Pagan children know no other religion except that Christians are evil, and so on. But this type of education is a whole new subject, and it would take a lot of work on the part of the school system to pull it off correctly. So if they can't do it right and teach about all religions, they shouldn't teach religions at all. Not just because of the fairness factor, but because once religion is brought up outside of a class about it, it opens everyone up to prejudice and being targets of abuse from others, instead of equipping everyone with the knowledge necessary to handle differences in religions in a mature and understanding way.

 

I believe no religion should be taught at school, that should be up to the parents, or the children to figure out for themselves.... Even if all are taught, you can't expect someone to teach about all of them without being biased, which would likely come through in teaching it... It's better off to just not teach any of it... None of it has anything to do with school anyway, excpet for in a history class...

 

That's why I said it woudl be a whole new subject on it's own and it would take a big effort by the school system to do it right. That is something that I honestly don't have faith in our society's public school system to be able to do.