Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Behind the rest of the world in science.
Behind the rest of the world in math.
Behind the rest of the world in geography.
Country founded on a WALL between church and state. No "state" religion is enshrined in law as well as many statements fro the founders.
Yet we should teach a specific scripture? I'm reading about Warren Jeffs right now - child abuser, official leader of a a massive "christian" church. Should we teach his views? Or those of the "papists" who the KKK an southerners disliked as much as jews and blacks?
Don't they have sunday school and churches any more?
KY....what a joke! All these places which are already 2nd world going for full witch doctor status.....
Let's leave it to churches and colleges (elective)...
"A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written."
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all"
"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth"
"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another"
(all Thomas Jefferson)
Hopefully, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism will be a big part of the KY courseware...
Behind the rest of the world in science.
Behind the rest of the world in math.
Behind the rest of the world in geography.
Country founded on a WALL between church and state. No "state" religion is enshrined in law as well as many statements fro the founders.
Yet we should teach a specific scripture? I'm reading about Warren Jeffs right now - child abuser, official leader of a a massive "christian" church. Should we teach his views? Or those of the "papists" who the KKK an southerners disliked as much as jews and blacks?
Don't they have sunday school and churches any more?
KY....what a joke! All these places which are already 2nd world going for full witch doctor status.....
Let's leave it to churches and colleges (elective)...
Timothy McVeigh went to church full-time when he blew up the Murrah building. His church was anti-black and anti-Jew.
Will there be "elective" classes for other world religions?
Probably not and therein lies the problem.
Just do an elective on World Religions and everyone can be happy.
I had a class on world religions when I was in high school, a Catholic high school. It was a compare and contrast type of class.
It was a good class as it gave you the basics on each religion. Something you wouldn't go off and learn on your own.
It's such a shame the public schools are afraid of religions.
We studied all the religions as myth. It was very enlightening.
It's a shame they don't care if students take science though. They will not be able to compete for the high paying good jobs that foreigners will take in this and other countries. They will be in the Dark Ages.
Glad, schools have the option of bible-based social studies courses as opposed to social studies courses that indoctrinate children with Hollywood values.
I had a friend that was arrested in Kentucky. He was charged with smuggling books across the state line. Got off on a technicality. Nobody there could prove they were books.
I am a Christian, but the place for religious education is the home or the church, and I find it appalling that you think kids should be able to opt out of science.
Man, do I ever feel better now!
Which gospels? What versions? Whose interpretations?
The US has historically ranked middle of the road as it relates to science scores submitted for international comparisons. The ability for students to opt out of science will further challenge the ability of the US to compete without importing foreign talent/ skill.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
