After receiving an assignment that made her uncomfortable, she chose to speak before the board of the Katy Independent School District:
“I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith and told me that God was not real.“Mythology”, according to dictionary.com, is a fairly nuanced term:
We were asked to take a poll to say whether God is fact, opinion or a myth and she told anyone who said fact or opinion was wrong and God was only a myth.”
“…a set of stories, traditions, or beliefs associated with a particular group or the history of an event, arising naturally or deliberately fostered.”A “myth”, then, can be based in fact or fiction but the students may not have been aware of that definition, and the teacher may not have been using it, myth, as a colloquialism, implies a fictional base.
Several students were very upset by the assignment; some of them because any student who persisted in claiming that God is real faced a reduction in grades. Jordan continued:
“Another student asked the teacher if we could put what we believe in the paper, and she said we could … but you would fail the paper if you do.When Jordan was asked how the interaction made her feel, she responded:
I had known before that our schools aren’t really supposed to teach us much about religion or question religion. When I asked my teacher about it she said it doesn’t have anything to do with religion because the problem is just saying there is no God.”
“I felt like she was taking away my religion, what I believe is true.”The seventh-grader had previously challenged her school when they held no memorial on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, naming the day “National Make Your Bed Day” instead.
The school board has promised to look into the situation.
Source: Click2Houston
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Everyone has their personal belief regarding God. It is wrong for the teacher to want control the kids. There is freedom of religious expression in the American constitution
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ReplyDeleteThat teacher should be sacked because he/she has only one agenda to demoralize these children. We all should condemn this satanic plan of the school in corrupting the minds of the young. It is bad enough the school doesn't teach or talk about religion but it is really absolute wicked to want to destroy the faith in God they have. By the way, when you take away God from education, all America would have are evil geniuses.
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ReplyDeleteWise little girl. Do not mind these so called "adults" that have no thinking faculty whatsoever. America = modern day sodom and gomorrah ( i am sorry i can't put their fist letters in caps). Why impose your warped thinking on innocent 7th graders? To think as teachers these kids are mostly in your care and its your duty to mold them best you can. See how aloof the foolish teacher even looks.
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