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Originally Posted by Rags123
I cannot honestly venture an answer to your question, but will share what I think we are ALLOWING in our schools.
Our basic morals have been broken. I really hate to sound like an old guy who is talking about walking far to school, etc., BUT it used to be that our academics were shared with parents and that parents actually were involved up front and took part.
So much today....there is NO parent involvement, and as I said in an earlier post and got burned for saying it......those teaching are human beings with their own agendas and left unfettered their agenda will surface, AS IT WOULD WITH ANY OF US....the key is parent involvement...being aware of what is going on in the schools...what the academic plan is.
Enough for my lecture....it does not answer WHY, but I am betting that local folks IF THEY ASK, can find out some things.
The lack of parental involvement in our public schools puts our youngest at the whim of a hired teacher. Listen, my wife spent over 30 years in a classroom, thus I support teachers, but we live in a new world and involvement by parents is so crucial to the school, the teachers and the community.
This cannot be legislated.....this is a local issue and the only folks who can do it are the parents.
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I do so agree. Parent involvement is key. I don't think there is a good way to teach the religions of the world in public schools...and sadly we need to know about them. You will tread on some toes because it is almost impossible to treat any religion as an overview with so many different versions of Christianity and so many people who are not religious at all who are sometimes grouped as a religion rather than an ethnicity.
So I remember only about the "Moors" and the arches and the Spanish torturing people for ...I don't remember.. My Lutheran church classes before Confirmation gave a really good and not biased view of other faiths, but since I did not know, had never seen in person or on the screen any people who were Muslims, it rolled right over my head.
I really think religion is an impossible subject in public schools.