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Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 7:11 pm
So, just to be clear, I don't have a problem with my peers reading their own personal bibles in class. I don't care about that, as long as they aren't preaching. But today, in my Science[/i] class, my teacher said that at the end of the year, if we had time, we would read Genesis, as a class. Is she actually allowed to do this?
"I trust my own reason and my own capacities to think and educate myself and to reach greater levels of knowlege and status through learning and work. To me, wishing for a god is like wishing to be a slave, it is like declaring that one is too incompetent to handle one's own affairs." - the germans are coming
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 7:36 pm
It depends on how much pointing and laughing is involved.
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 8:28 pm
I'd raise the biggest fucking stink there ever was. I'd send emails to various secular organizations, emails to the school board... Basically anything I could to stop it. But I'm me, and you're you... By the time I was in high school, I was already singled out as "the weird atheist/witch/devil worshipper girl," I did my utmost to live up to that reputation. But you may not want to be the focus of that kind of attention, and that's perfectly acceptable as well. You could simply ask the teacher to be excused from those classes. Now if the teacher refuses... That's a different matter.
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 8:46 pm
What kind of a school is this?
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Sounds like this teacher needs an intervention.
Get a hold of Zack Kopplin or Secular Student Alliance for assistance.
SSA has lawyers!
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 9:06 pm
It's a public school. Yes. I shit you not
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 9:14 pm
(May 2, 2013 at 9:06 pm)TromboneAtheist Wrote: It's a public school. Yes. I shit you not
Contact the SSA.
http://www.secularstudents.org/
They can help you put a stop to the teacher.
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RE: Bibles in school
May 2, 2013 at 9:19 pm
So, this is definitely not ok? I'll see how it goes down, or if she even ends up doing that particular "lesson", and then I'll take what action I see fit.
"I trust my own reason and my own capacities to think and educate myself and to reach greater levels of knowlege and status through learning and work. To me, wishing for a god is like wishing to be a slave, it is like declaring that one is too incompetent to handle one's own affairs." - the germans are coming
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