In God We Trust sign prominently posted in FCPS Middle School main office

[Anonymous]

I was shocked when I purchased something at the snack bar at a recent FCPS sporting event and the official school-run snack bar gave me little green slips of paper with "In God We Trust" written on them ... coins too! I feel violated.

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Shouldn't be on big banners hung on school walls

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Anonymous wrote:check your wallet and see what your money says.

This. I don't want state sponsored religion, but this saying isn't it.

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't be on big banners hung on school walls

My classroom has a sign saying "In God We Trust, everyone else has to bring the data."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:check your wallet and see what your money says.

This. I don't want state sponsored religion, but this saying isn't it.

It is, it’s just ok because communism is worse. All of the ‘god’ in the pledge and on currency is the last remnant of McCarthyism

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Anonymous wrote:I saw this posted elsewhere, and underneath it referred to a law passed May 10, 2002.

There’s a law in Florida. That may be what you read.

In Virginia referring to an act of assembly or article of assembly.

[Anonymous]

The sign gives room to a variety of interpretations. One: the school staff is not to be trusted.

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Anonymous wrote:The sign gives room to a variety of interpretations. One: the school staff is not to be trusted.

That’s ridiculous. No one thinks that.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how taking God out of schools and everything else has coincided with loss of meaning, depression, and violence among youth and in the country as a whole. Maybe we need a little more God.

Only if it’s Ganesh. The coolest of the gods.

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't be on big banners hung on school walls

My classroom has a sign saying "In God We Trust, everyone else has to bring the data."

Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the phrase offends you so much maybe you shouldn’t live in in a country where it’s the national motto.

Or maybe work to change the motto.

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Anonymous wrote:At the PTA-sponsored book fair at our kid’s NOVA public elementary school a parent dressed as Santa and gave out candy. A Jewish family wrote a letter to the principal complaining that it was inappropriate and offensive and made them uncomfortable. The principal ignored it.

How do you know the principal ignored it? Because someone told you he did? I am nit Christian. I don’t find Santa offensive (he also is not Christian!).

What do you think Santa means?

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Anonymous wrote:I walked into the office to pick up my daughter yesterday and noticed an 8.5 x 11 sign stating "In God We Trust" in a prominent location in the main office.

This seems at best inappropriate and at worst like a brazen attempt to bring personal religious beliefs into a public space (unfortunately I do think it is legal). I happen to know, because of the Principal's Instagram account, that she is extremely religious. I respect her personal beliefs and her right to express them in a private context.

But as someone who has carefully raised their children without religion and God, this sign is offensive to me. Whether or not it is intentional, it effectively others and intimidates constituents of that school who don't believe in God. Even if it only offends a few people, isn't that enough? Why is this necessary?

I know. It's on our money and it's in the pledge, but my kids can opt to not say the God part in the pledge. They can't opt not to go into the main office.

I filled out a discrimination complaint online, but I doubt anything will come of it (there are certainly more immediate issues in that arena for that office to address).

I am considering writing a kind and good faith note to the principal from an anonymous email address. Any (kind and in good faith) thoughts on that approach or ideas for ways to resolve this without backlash against my kids?

Thanks.

I would take this seriously if you have previously complained about the public display of BLM signs.

Have you?

Not OP, but what does that have to do with freedom of religion?

Nothing.

It does with the public display of something that I suspect OP wouldn't have a problem with, even if it's much more problematic.

Black lives are problematic? Let me guess your race.

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Anonymous wrote:If the phrase offends you so much maybe you shouldn’t live in in a country where it’s the national motto.

Or maybe work to change the motto.

Yup. It was changed before and it can be changed again.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop being so intolerant. People are allowed to believe in God. Just ignore it.

+1

Others are forced to tolerate others belief systems there, so welcome to the club.