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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

It is covet. Not cover.

You probably ought to read the ten commandments before you slam others.

Most of the ten commandments are very applicable to elementary school and certainly to high school.[/quote]
Applicable to students of all ages and religions/faiths/belief systems:
- Do not kill
- Do not steal
- Do not bear false witness
- Honor your mother and father
- Do not covet your neighbor’s things

These are tenets that are taught across cultures and even...gasp...by atheists. At my DS’s secular elementary school, they’re called “being a good citizen” and “code of ethics.” (And also “not breaking the law.”)

Applicable to adults, but not children:
- Do not commit adultery/covet your neighbor’s wife

Not applicable outside of a Judeo-Christian milieu:
- I am the Lord your god (in the Talmudic 10 commandments)
- No other gods before me
- Don’t take the name of the Lord in vain
- Keep the sabbath 
- No graven images

So, no, [i]most[/i] of the commandments aren’t applicable across the board to all students of all ages everywhere. And the ones that are, are taught regardless of whether the words are printed as part of a religious document. [/quote]

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