On 10/6/09 8:11 AM, thunder wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:02:13 -0400, Jim wrote:


Sorry fella. You cannot teach history without touching on religion.
Also, with few exceptions, the federal government has no jurisdiction
over what may or may not be taught in public schools.

Well, Intelligent Design is one of those exceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmil...chool_District


Some school districts might allow the teaching of a comparative
religions class in the public school upper grades, but if the teacher or
class goes over the line and starts advocating a religion, parents or
the ACLU or both should slam the practice to the mat.

I really do not understand why anyone wants religious beliefs of any
kind taught in the public schools. When I was a kid, if you were
Catholic and were a public school student, you went to religious classes
at your local church *after* school. Jewish kids did the same - they
attended Hebrew school *after* public school.

First thing in the morning at public school, K-12, we recited the Pledge
of Allegiance. The "under god" nonsense was not added to the pledge
until the mid-1950's, and in my classes, I can't recall anyone who
actually said that while reciting the pledge. We never recited the
lord's prayer aloud as a group, or any other prayer, for that matter.

I do remember one teacher in 10th grade world history discussing the
great numbers of people killed in the name of various religions, and one
teacher in the 8th grade discussing the religions of the ancients.




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