Should we being back God to the classroom?

[Anonymous]

No thank you. We don't all believe in the ten commandments. Or god. Or jesus.

[Anonymous]

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?

I have no trouble having my children being exposed to those things, but I would also like their classes to be exposed the tenets of our religion too. Are you okay with that?

[Anonymous]

OP...can you even name the 10 commandments without looking them up? Most can’t and they aren’t very relavant or even appropriate for elementary school (don’t cover your neighbor’s wife...).

This is a ridiculous idea.

[Anonymous]

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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.

The Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta are historical documents. The Ten Commandments is not.

That's ridiculous. Of course it is.

Oh? You've got the stone tablets in your basement? Yes, I'll acknowledge it is written about in stories that roughly solidified in the 4th century AD, making the story ABOUT the Ten Commandments historical. So far as I know there is nothing showing the Ten Commandments as such existed outside of these stories.

Do you have the original clay tables for the Code of Hammurabi in your basement?

NP but I'm laughing so hard at you right now. The Code of Hammurabi is on a nearly 8-foot stele that is on permanent display at the Louvre. The fact that you thought it was as "mythical" as the Ten Commandments tablets just shows how uneducated people are about religion, believing it to be historical fact.

[Anonymous]

No way! Keep that crap out of public schools.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand how this would be possible. You can't bring back something that never existed! There is no God.

[Anonymous]

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NP but I'm laughing so hard at you right now. The Code of Hammurabi is on a nearly 8-foot stele that is on permanent display at the Louvre. The fact that you thought it was as "mythical" as the Ten Commandments tablets just shows how uneducated people are about religion, believing it to be historical fact.

How do you know it's the original version?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God never left the classroom. Religious instruction should stay at home or at church. There is no place for it in a public school.

~ Minister

I'm no minister, but PP said exactly what I wanted to.

That being said, I'm all in favor of civility, courtesy, and mutual respect being taught. The Golden Rule, as far as I know is not attached to any specific religion, although I believe it embodies the spirit of most; I definitely support teaching "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."

[Anonymous]

Yes because God obviously didn't make the monsters who commit mass murder, so of course bringing God to school will protect everyone.

[Anonymous]

If your child wants to bring in a religious text such as the Bible, (s)he can feel free to do so. The student can read it during independent reading. That’s perfectly fine. We (teachers) can’t deny it. So in that sense it’s allowed.

[Anonymous]

So, your thinking is that in order to preserve (dubious) rights under the Second Amendment, we're going to scrap the First Amendment?

Brilliant.

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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.

Don't be obtuse. The Judeo-Christian god was in American schools throughout history until the 1960s. Folks from minority religions managed to do OK. Religions such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Wicca, etc. are still the minority. Now the God in the classroom is secular humanism and that hasn't worked so well.

+10000

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NP but I'm laughing so hard at you right now. The Code of Hammurabi is on a nearly 8-foot stele that is on permanent display at the Louvre. The fact that you thought it was as "mythical" as the Ten Commandments tablets just shows how uneducated people are about religion, believing it to be historical fact.

How do you know it's the original version?

<headdesk>

PP, you should quite while you're ahead. Or behind, as the case may be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP...can you even name the 10 commandments without looking them up? Most can’t and they aren’t very relavant or even appropriate for elementary school (don’t cover your neighbor’s wife...).

This is a ridiculous idea.

NP. It's "covet," Einstein. And yes, I could probably name them all without looking them up.

They are perfectly applicable to elementary age children.

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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.

So when my 16yrold was smoking pot in the basement, cutting herself, and doing God’s know what else, I called the police. They told me they couldn’t help me with her disobedience, they couldn’t help me have her go to rehab, all they could do was bring her back home to terrorise me and the younger kids. This kid was 19, a legal adult. What were his parents supposed to do ?