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Originally posted by truthinfact
To be completely honest you are sending your kid to Public school. It is not like you really cared about their Education... there has never been a US President who went to public school. Ever.
They are not teaching your offspring anything more than being a more efficient slave. That is the point of the public school system.
Sorry, but masses do not get to sit with the Classes.
If this even remotely surprises you..... Well it might. Sorry. Truth hurts, but it is fact.
Originally posted by smyleegrl
Originally posted by freedomSlave
reply to post by smyleegrl
a teach preaching his own agenda , thoughts and philosophies .
Not really sure how some people in here think this is the governments doing . maybe tin foil hats are on to tight cutting off proper blood flow to their brains
Just to clarify, my husband and I both use the state curriculum to create lessons. Critical thinking is part and parcel of the curriculum. HOW you teach critical thinking is left to the teachers' judgement, hence my husband's lessons. It is his philosophy as well, QUESTION EVERYTHING, but isn't this what we want our children to do?
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by Rocker2013
And a good thing too. It's not the job of a teacher to be issuing religious texts to students when that religious text is not part of a wider class. Teachers have no place promoting any religion to students, in any way. Religious education in schools should cover everything or nothing. It should be about the facts, not opinions. If I were that teacher, and an "inquisitive" student came to me to ask for a Bible or discussion about religion outside of a class, I would direct them to the library, or advise them to seek that information from a church, friend or family member outside of the education system. State employees should not be promoting any religion in a secular society.
it may be your prerogative to "direct them to the library" but a student asking questions about a religion, and a teacher answering is not illegal or wrong.
you seem to be laboring under the delusion that "separation of church and state" is in the constitution, it isn't. furthermore the student was the one asking, the teacher merely gave them the text that they could get anywhere.
also, claiming that our society is secular is far from true. the polls show "our society" firmly supports the idea of a god.
PRINCETON, NJ -- More than 9 in 10 Americans still say "yes" when asked the basic question "Do you believe in God?"; this is down only slightly from the 1940s, when Gallup first asked this question.
www.gallup.com...
The longview from Gallup: "Some 78% of Americans today believe that God had a hand in the development of humans in some way, just slightly less than the percentage who felt this way 30 years ago. All in all, there is no evidence in this trend of a substantial movement toward a secular viewpoint on human origins."
reason.com...
46% believe in creationism while 32% believe god guided evolution.edit on 12-4-2013 by Bob Sholtz because: (no reason given)
Ummm...Good ole dihydrous monoxide...the major ingredient in sewage...not just any effluvia.
Originally posted by smyleegrl
Teacher here.
My husband teaches eight grade...they just finished a unit on propaganda. Guess what a majority of their primary sources were....US propaganda. My husband even played a "trick" on the students, getting them to sign a petition to ban water. He used the chemical name and described the dangers, and they all signed it. Then he explained what they REALLY signed...and I think those kids now understand why blindly accepting what you are told is never a good thing.
Originally posted by MrSpad
So we have something a written by a kid who has no idea what it means nor do we have any context as in? Could the teacher have said write this down and ask your parents how they feel. So we know nothing and yet we at ATS condem what somebody may or may not have said and want to deny that person their what? Thats right, their constitutional right of free speech for the security of children from certain ideas. So in fact you all do agree with the note. Interesting that.
Originally posted by seabag Fortunately for me, here in Texas it’s not that bad yet.
Originally posted by MojaveBurning
I would like to see this from a source other than Alex Jones, Infowars, and The Blaze.
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Originally posted by jimmyx
Originally posted by MojaveBurning
I would like to see this from a source other than Alex Jones, Infowars, and The Blaze.
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oh please...by now, if you have spent any time here, you will notice every day there is a thread or two, with the same twenty or thirty posters, that talk about how their constitutional rights have been taken away and destroyed. it's always because of the "socialist agenda", and of course, Obama and liberals are the culprits, and leaders of the pack.
same thing, different day
To be completely honest you are sending your kid to Public school. It is not like you really cared about their Education... there has never been a US President who went to public school. Ever. They are not teaching your offspring anything more than being a more efficient slave. That is the point of the public school system. Sorry, but masses do not get to sit with the Classes. If this even remotely surprises you..... Well it might. Sorry. Truth hurts, but it is fact.