Bad Op Ed, Bad Headline writers - Obama's Address to Schools and atheism

[Synnical]

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Local teacher's atheism, Obama's speech show student vulnerability

What was wrong with President Obama's speech to students across America. Nothing! In fact, the speech itself was never the problem for some Americans, it was the lesson plans that the U.S. Department of Education sent along with the speech that was offensive; after opposition, those plans were changed.

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While most in the minority community agree with most of the President's political agenda, nearly half of the nation does not agree; we must keep that in mind. School children are generally politically generic, unless they grow up in politicized households. In those cases, parents are extremely protective of the experiences that influence their children.

Often in our community we pay little attention to the small things that influence children: what books they read, the television programs they watch, games they play or what teachers say in the classroom outside of the lesson plan.

Often we laugh at movies rated "PG13" and dismiss the rating as trivial because it only contains violence and little cursing.

We often overlook the little things and we are surprised that there are millions of parents in America who pay attention to the little things.

Two weeks ago, an English teacher at a local high school questioned the belief in God of millions of Americans and dismissed it as an experience of the ignorant. She then gave reading assignments in her English class of selected materials that all supported her supposition.

Many parents were not aware of the instructor, but some students complained about what they were being taught. The principal was notified and the action is in correction.

Children are susceptable to influences, not just from the U.S. Department of Education but by many influences.

Had not parents complained, the public education system could have been manipulated to support political position of a sitting president.

Had not students at a city school complained, a teacher would have continued atheist rantings under the guise of education.

Unless we all become more concerned about everything that influence our children we may hasten the loss of yet another generation to the growing decadence we see around us everyday.

This is from Louisiana. No news link to the English Teacher story.

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[laconicsax]

1. Well, as long as that teacher's school showed the speech, the problem's solved.

Teacher: Believing in God is ignorant.
Obama: God bless you, and God bless America.

President outranks teacher, God exists.

[WillParkinson]

2. Had not students at a city school complained, a teacher would have continued atheist rantings under

the guise of education...

How many times has the converse been true and they tried to hide religious rantings under the guise of education? Oh, that's OK I guess.

[charlie]

3. Had it actually happened

and happened a mere "two weeks ago" at that, the story would have names, location, and contact info. There's no way they'd turn that sort of outrage into a friend-of-a-friend story, not when they have the particulars. It's rightwing Christian bullshit, lying for the greater good, which they're always too happy to do.

And yeah, I agree, proselytizing for Jeebus is a hell of a lot more commonplace. When someone notices, it gets inverted into persecution, a COMINTERN plot to "keep God out of schools". You can't deny hyper-Christians their martyrdom, they're always victims.