Well, this week, there is not much too talk about. I think that is a good thing. Of course there are always a few things that happen that make me shake my head in disbelief, or make my jaw drop open.
Here is an example:
A girl placed a piece of paper on a chair where my oldest was sitting. My daughter picked up the piece of paper and placed it on the next chair, beside her. This girl got so mad at her and started yelling at my daughter. To which my child stands up and yells back at her, saying "what's the big deal with moving the paper, off of my chair?" The teacher then gets involved and crumples up said paper, throws it away, and says, "This is why people get shot in school." W T F??
My daughter is telling me this story and tells me she forgot where she was for a few minutes. LOL. Then she tells me that there are guns in her school. That kids bring them to school, that there is a gang in her school. Teachers know about it, even. My head is about to explode.
Ok, this is NOT the inner city. This is town of about 30,000 people. Homeschooling seems more and more appealing every day.
Here are a few stories from awhile back, some of you know these stories, but I thought they were worth sharing here as well.
Religion in the South is a bit fanatical. I truly don't get it. What I DO get, is that there is a clear amendment in our Constitution about separation between church and state. To me, your religious beliefs are yours and yours alone. And in the end, does it really matter? As long as you are a good person and do good while you are here on this Earth, who cares what you believe?!!
Anyway, religion in school here is a blurred line for sure.
First, a teacher at my oldest's school, told a friend of my daughter's that "she needs Jesus in her life." After this friend, back talked the teacher. Whoa. Two wrongs here, back talking the teacher and an adult, a teacher, telling a child they need Jesus!!! WTF?? My daughter says, what if she is Muslim or Jewish?
My youngest came home one day near Christmas time and told me they learned to draw a person in art class. Great! Because up until this point, it had been craft class, and crappy crafts at best. I asked her, what kind of person, did you draw? She says, "The teacher showed us a picture of Mary holding baby Jesus with angels behind her."
All the blood in my face drains.
"She said we could either draw that, or draw our mom holding us." "I drew you holding me. Wanna see it?" Sure, I say. Then she tell me, that she was the only one in her class to draw their mom and everyone else drew Mary holding Jesus. Once I regained a semi conscious state, I took a few deep breaths and just let it go. Until............
She brought home a booklet about joining a church........FROM THE SCHOOL. I picked up the phone and immediately called the principal. Turns out this was an insert in the local paper, that they put in the kids backpacks every week. She was very apologetic and I then told her about the art teacher. She had no idea.
I cannot stomach any one religion being pushed on adults, let alone having it happen to kids, in a public school. It is a basic right in our country. I can handle "one nation under God", in the pledge. "In God we trust", on money. The word God, can mean different things to different people, God can be anything. But to push your Christian agenda on kids in school is inexcusable. And from what I have seen, from the kids down here, they sure don't practice their religion very much. Going to church 3 times a week, doesn't automatically make you a good person.
It has become very clear, that if you don't go with the grain here, you are the outcast. I have not had ONE adult conversation here, that doesn't involve, "Where do you go to church?" I still have no idea, why it matters? I have never ever in my life asked someone this question. I feel it would be like asking, "How many times a week do you have sex?" It is a personal issue. Of course when I answer, that we don't do church, I am never spoke to again. Judgmental much?
"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But
how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been
blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the
most bloody religion that has ever existed?" ~ John Adams
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