Quote:Nothing wrong with that. Putting Noah's Ark in a history book is another story.

A comparative religion course is fine.  As is a world religion course, or any course that remains objective. I don't, however think, it's a teachers job to instill their religious values in students.  I think that should be left up to the parents.  There's a fine line between educating and instilling values.  

 

Noah's Ark shouldn't be a field trip either, nor should the creationist museum.  Of course some public schools in Kentucky have went on field trips to Ken Ham's Creationist Museum.  Which is a bit more worrisome to me than banning something on a t-shirt.  (Schools have some crazy dresscode requirements sometimes tbh, not all of which I agree with.  Guns on shirts isn't really that big of a deal, but I doubt it takes that much of their time or money enforcing)   

 

But I still have faith in public schools--even the ones in Kentucky.  Thanks to IDEA I was able to learn to read.  I had a learning disability that made it hard for me to learn to read.  Eventually I got it, and now reading is one of my favorite activities.  I can't imagine where I'd be today without it--aside from probably on welfare instead of having a decent paying job.

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