Should we being back God to the classroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very believing, religious person here......no!

When you say schools, you do realize there are a variety of schools out there. Private, public, charter, home.

If you’re asking about public schools...again, no.

Me again, and I want to answer your Q about teachers and guns.

Each school jurisdiction should decide. When I say decide, I mean decide on a safety plan for their schools.

Their safety plan, I would hope, is MUCH better thought out than ‘let’s give teachers guns.’ Such as: security on site, security guard at gate perhaps too?, alarm buttons in classrooms like they have at banks. Other logistics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should have universal healthcare and improved mental health programs. I think we should have stricter gun laws.

+1 and parents need to step up and parent and monitor their kids. The last shooting this kid had serious mental health issues. He was living with a friend's family who allowed him to keep a gun in the house and didn't monitor it or him.

If there was a God, in my mind, these things wouldn't be happening.

Whose God do you bring into the classroom?

If these kids are taught God at home and church, which many of them are, then if it wasn't effective, the only reason to bring it to the classroom is for your personal gain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think if we talked about God and had the Ten Commandments in every classroom there will be less violence?
There are students in a school in FCPS that have no idea what are the Ten Commandments. This school has over 80% passing rate in the sols and 90% in History and Science classes...

Should teacher have guns to protect the students?

There is plenty of violence in the Old Testament.

Not sure why you think that the Ten Commandments belong in a history class or a science class, nor why you capitalized those words.

I think it's actually a valid point to discuss it in a history class. It should be part of a comparative religions study.

Ummm it often is. In geography they spend some portion of the year on world religions. Presentations, study of basic aspects of various religions. This is a prior year to world history, usually.

So, it is discussed.

[Anonymous]

Why people think morality lessons achieve anything is beyond me. Data proves time and time again that they don't work (see: teen pregnancy).

[Anonymous]

Hell no.

Learning about the different religions in the classroom? Absolutely! Pushing your Jesus agenda on my kid? Don't you dare.

[Anonymous]

Whose?

[Anonymous]

You remind me of my relative who just posted this on FB:

"Dear God, Why do you allow so much violence in our schools? Signed, A Concerned Student

Dear Concerned Student. I'm not allowed in schools. -God"

This from a man hasn't set foot in a church since his youngest's christening, which was going on 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Whose god?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure why you think that the Ten Commandments belong in a history class or a science class, nor why you capitalized those words.

NP here. Same reason why the code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta belong. Because understanding these documents and their origins gives us insight into the laws and systems currently in the United States and in other countries.

OP, no to your questions. But you didn't answer them yourself.

[Anonymous]

You can teach morality and right from wrong without introducing God. There are many non religious people who have significantly stronger senses of morality without being religious. God has no place in a public school as this is only one path to ethical behavior and car from the only or even arguably the best path.

The majority of recent shootings and bombings in the US n eecent years have been examplws of Christian terrorism, so I don't think this is appropriate for public classrooms.

[Anonymous]

Hell no and hell no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You remind me of my relative who just posted this on FB:

"Dear God, Why do you allow so much violence in our schools? Signed, A Concerned Student

Dear Concerned Student. I'm not allowed in schools. -God"

This from a man hasn't set foot in a church since his youngest's christening, which was going on 10 years ago.

I'm the PP Minister who is very much against religion in public school. When someone asks why God allows violence, my answer is always - "God's question to us is exactly the same. Why do we allow so much violence."

[Anonymous]

NO. Send your kids to religious school if that is what you want. I am a religious person, but not, what I mean is I am a spiritual person who believes that God/good is in all of us. Please leave the middle ages, our school system has enough trouble without becoming more backward. Maybe we should bring back kneeling on corn too?

[Anonymous]

I am a Christian and hell NO I don’t want teachers teaching theology I barely trust my own church with it. Religion is misused too much as it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we should have universal healthcare and improved mental health programs. I think we should have stricter gun laws.

+1 and parents need to step up and parent and monitor their kids. The last shooting this kid had serious mental health issues. He was living with a friend's family who allowed him to keep a gun in the house and didn't monitor it or him.

If there was a God, in my mind, these things wouldn't be happening.

Whose God do you bring into the classroom?

If these kids are taught God at home and church, which many of them are, then if it wasn't effective, the only reason to bring it to the classroom is for your personal gain.

+a million to parents needing to step up and parenting/monitoring their kids. Parents need to parent their kids - teach them right from wrong, be on the lookout for any off behaviors. They can't expect to simply put God in the classroom with the Ten Commandments and expect that part of their parenting job to be finished. Parents need to take personal responsibility and parent their kids.