The actual God that religious people believe in. Had she written about her admiration for the State, that would be okay — and would be akin, in the minds of progressive educators, to expressing an admiration for God, only a more palatable one, the kind that promotes conformity and communism and whose angels wander the earth with bad haircuts wearing bureaucratic badges.
Remember this: liberal education policy maintains that Christians are evil. We must also remember that our system of miseducation enforces that position every day. We see it this time in Tennessee where a school has told a little girl that she isn’t allowed to write about God. Todd Starnes of Fox News Radio reports this latest outrage against freedom OF religion in our schools where we find little 10-year-old Erin Shead who was attacked by her teachers for writing about god for an assignment about someone she idolized at Lucy Elementary School in Millington, Tennessee. “I look up to God,” she wrote. “I love him and Jesus, and Jesus is His earthly son. I also love Jesus.”God would “always be the #1 person I look up to,” the little tyke wrote.
Little Erin’s teacher scolded the girl for having the temerity to use the “G” word and told her she must choose someone else to write about. Then the teacher told the little girl that she had to remove the offensive “God” paper from the school apparently because it is illegal to say “God” in American schools.The school has released a statement about this:
Shelby County Schools respects the moral and religious beliefs of all students and families. While teachers and staff are not permitted to promote religion in the classroom or the workplace, no laws or district policies allow teachers to limit students’ expression of personal religious beliefs. This was a regrettable misunderstanding, and we as educators can and must learn from it. The principal and teacher have had a positive and productive conversation with the family, and we are pleased this matter is being addressed at the school level. The district will not be discussing this matter further in the media.
Likely they only say this because they got caught. Otherwise it is oppression of religion as normal.
Leaving religion aside — it is under attack precisely because it competes with the secular power of the state for ultimate moral authority, which is to be expected (communism always seeks to extirpate its competition for social control) — what we are seeing here is part of larger trend I’ve been trying to highlight for years: the misunderstanding, fostered by leftist ideas about language, that “tolerance” means “not giving offense,” even as the aim not to give offense necessarily offends those who are chided for breaking that progressive commandment.
It is an inversion of the intended meaning of tolerance as it was understood by the Founders and Framers in the new Constitutional framework; just as “equality” has been corrupted by the left to mean equality of outcome, and “fairness” no longer means fairness but rather theft, oppression, and bigotry in the name of radical egalitarianism.
In a country where even putative “classical liberals” argue incoherently that a bakery should be compelled to bake a cake it doesn’t bake for anyone for a same sex couple — or else be run out business by political mobs, then “rehabilitated” by some state functionary for its failure to give someone the fruits of its labor against its will, and in contradiction to services generally provided — we shouldn’t be surprised at all by messages like this being passed on to our children.
If our property isn’t our own, why not go after our minds, next?
Is it merely a “misunderstanding” or is it deliberate? Whether or not the teacher in question was misinformed, which I doubt, she most assuredly was indoctrinated by an education school whose focus was on training others to indoctrinate. One wonders how often such things occur, where the little kid doesn’t tell his parents. Reason #72567 why I don’t send my kids to public schools.
BTW, I hope you’re out of the flood zone.
I don’t think they are worried so much about the mind, but rather, the behavior which can not only be controlled, but compelled. After all, once a man has been ingrained with the concept of being forced to kowtow to anyone with an official sounding job title, many generations will be wasted before someone gets the idea that we really don’t need a King after all.
I wonder how many other places and times this lesson has been taught to kids, with the kids not bothering to mention it to Mom and Dad, just the teacher saying, “No, you can’t pick God, pick someone real” while Timmy and Susie and “Brittnea-with-an-A” giggle at the stupid godbotherers. After all, that’s just for Sunday mornings, right?
“We all belong to the government.”
Natch.
$5 says little Achmed sitting next to her could scrawl a full page of There Is No God But Allah And Mohammed (PBUH) is His Prophet and nary a peep would be heard.
Hell, make it $10. I feel safe about it.
Hey, at least Mohammed was real, right? Those 9 year old girls didn’t rape themselves, yanno…
I bet they could write something about Barack Obama and he is a mythical person with imaginary sons and has written about made up girlfriends.
“The principal and teacher have had a positive and productive conversation with the family, and we are pleased this matter is being addressed at the school level.”
Let me interpret: “We told the school in no uncertain terms we could not afford to fight the lawsuit and you damn well better ask “how high” when the parents say, “Jump,” otherwise, you’ll be holding a bake sale to pay for the cost of litigation.
As others have already mentioned Allah, I’m going to guess that they likewise would not prevent the girl from choosing to write about Mao, Che, or Castro. I think the only other ‘don’t go there’ selections would be Jesus and Hitler. (Crud, I just lost the argument by mentioning the H-word, didn’t I?)
Shermlaw wrote:
I have no doubt the teacher was indoctrinated. It’s so easy for anyone to become a teacher these days. The standards have been lowered [especially, as we’ve seen, morally] for admission into that profession.
In other words, there are a lot of f–king morons with teaching certificates these days. I don’t believe this is a coincidence.
Here I was all set to think you were talking about me….
“In a country where even putative “classical liberals” argue incoherently ”
but then you added
“that a bakery should be compelled to bake a cake it doesn’t bake for anyone for a same sex couple”
and I couldn’t figure out who you were talking about.
Should we wonder the Left has so much influence when so many abdicated their responsibilities that would have prevent their rise….
“There are none so blind…”
Oh, wait, that’s godclinger stuff. tracy will feel oppressed or something…
Tracy who?
McGehee, if you have to ask, you haven’t been paying attention.
Looks like nobody’s going to answer my question. Oh well.
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