RE: OK Bill to allow parents to sue teachers if they teach anything that opposes religion
February 20, 2022 at 11:23 am
(February 19, 2022 at 7:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: This is all so strange to me. I went to Catholic school from 6th grade through high school. Though we did have to attend religion classes, we were also taught science to include evolution. The school turned out a lot of college bound kids and things like science and math were emphasized for that reason.
Some of our religion classes included things like "Towards Marriage" and "World Religions". They didn't seem to be afraid to teach us things outside of the Catholic religion.
I guess I was lucky to have attended a more progressive parochial school system.
Much the same here - I had an exclusively Catholic school primary/secondary education. Religion courses took up one hour a day out of six. The other five were filled with secular subjects - maths, science, history, language and the like. I didn’t feel slighted.
But Nudger makes an excellent point - the insistence that schools not teach anything that ‘conflicts with religion’ is firmly at the feet of a particular brand of religionists.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
