“No prayer in schools. Some don’t even say the pledge, yet they’re pushing ideology on our students,” Jaramillo said. “Some of those things are religious practices that we don’t want our children doing in our schools.”
Of course, it NEVER occurs to ___________ like this that if they wanted their kids to learn this much needed religious instruction, they could damn well teach it themselves at home. But no, the schools are responsible for everything bad that these parents claim is “indoctrination.”
Yes, it is delicious. Nothing like schadenfreude with a healthy dollop of chocolate fudge sauce. But hold the cherry. Gotta watch my cholesterol, you know!
Mankind is sort of like Navin’s weight guess booth prize shelves. Somewhere down between the Chicklets and erasers are people that I can bear to be around for more than 15 minutes. The rest…well, I guess the less said…
I may not be the most intelligent person in the world but, at least according to my reasoning, wouldn’t a teacher who said “God Bless You” after a student sneezes be just as guilty as one who says “Namaste” after a yoga exercise?
But, after all, we are talking about “reason”, and this IS Georgia we are talking about ( and I’m still waiting for Atlanta to secede).
While I’m sure the parents behavior was judiciously colored by undereducated white Christian conservative hysteria, they had a point this time. These are belief systems and practices treated and perceived as religious in nature. The only context in which that is ok in schools is when you’re teaching them about different belief systems. Stepping beyond that, and encouraging them to adopt rituals like hand gestures or particular words/phrases strikes me as crossing a line. We wouldn’t want schools encouraging children to run around making the sign of the cross or to aopt a habit of saying “allahu akbar” all the time. Granted, it seems a bit sillier when it’s “just” yoga, since yoga I suppose isn’t technically “a religion” and rather something that was interwoven with several religions, but I’d frankly rather be erring on the side of not opening the door for evangelical mission creep in our schools.
“[P]arents raised concerns over the use of … mindfulness techniques in class.”
Mindfulness in schools? Outrageous!
Everyone knows school is for crushing individuality, instilling conformity, and breeding deference to the jocks, preps, and princesses that rule the adult world.
(Well, that and privatization, charter-based schemes, and syphoning public funds into corporate pockets.)
I don’t think there should be ANY Ideology in any class Christian or any other religion…ya think they thought that tru?? or is critical thinking not in ther Christian requirement …just paranoid nonsense
No way. Buddha would insult Jesus, Jesus would turn the other cheek and–BAM!–Buddha would deliver the elbow to the face, MMA style. Then he would leave him with “Meditate on that motherfucker!”.
Now, while we are meditating in some foreign communist “religion” let us imagine the kind of shitheads these shitheads elect to office…
OK enough of the scary. I for one much prefer the worship of Labrador Retrievers and would elect any color Lab to public office instead of the shitheads the religionists put there. At least the Labs won’t hold their non opposable thumb paws in prayer and are more loyal to their supporters who ask them to respond and retrieve.
Why can’t the parents be identified? There’s no expectation of privacy when you whine to your kids schools! I’d like to know if I live around any of these pathetic whiners so could at least shame or make fun of them, every time I see them! H’mm I wonder if a FOIA will get me their names? Or maybe a law suit could get me a peek at their names! There’s no national, state or local security problems here! I believe “ALL” the taxpayers in this town need to know who sent in the letters!
I’ll bet those are the types of parents that still believe that chocolate Easter Bunnies, colored hard-boiled eggs and of course Easter Baskets, full of teeth-destroying sugar! I’ll bet those whiners can’t even answer the following question correctly?
"What type of cross was the man hung on?
One more thing you know all those pictures of Jesus dragging a ready-made crucifix around didn’t happen! Read the second paragraph!
All you Bible-thumper’s you’ve been scammed for hundred and hundred’s of year’s, just like you’re being scammed when you go to your mega-church to support it and every other piece of entertainment the religious grifter’s shove your way & expect “YOU” to pay for! You know like Lear jets and multi-million dollar houses on the Gulf of Mexico ( “Mike the Huckster” Huckabee) or any of the gospel-grifting hucksters on cable!
I think the school making a point the practices would be banned is the main nit I’m picking. Again, has the school announced the drawing of a crucifix is banned? And it is legal for a child to privately pray while in school. That is not banned. If a student was caught doing some sort of meditation associated with an Eastern religion I read this to say they’d be admonished, reminded that practice had been banned. Yet a child in the lunchroom could quietly bow their head before eating and mouth the Lord’s Prayer to no similar rebuke. Neither practice is objectionable, and I wouldn’t view either child as the first domino in religion taking over the school system.
Do you know the meaning of Namaste? It is not remotely same as Allahu Akbar. The latter by the way means God is Great, something even Christians would not object to.
