Do you think promoting religious observance is a legitimate function of education?

Answer 1

No. Religion is a personal matter. If parents want their children to receive religious instruction, they should arrange for them to get it at church or at a religious school, not a public school.

Answer 2

Good question. Refreshing in this place.

Yes. Promoting religious observance is a legitimate function of education. The strict definition of "education" includes all promotion of anything including that done at school, home, church, media, Yahoo! Answers, etc...

Now I'm guessing that you meant a legitimate and authorized function of Public School Education.

My answer is still yes. Religion is an integral part of 99.9% of the world's population. If public schools are going to be worth anything at all, then it ought to include the issues that most affect society as a whole, including religion.

Public schools already teach evolution, which is a religion with atheist roots. All other religions ought to be treated the same way.

Either mandate that all religions get equal exposure in public schools, or else, make all religions --including evolution-- OPTIONAL instead of mandatory, as it has the current honor of being the only religion readily taught in public schools.

Answer 3

Public education.....NO WAY!

parental, religious and voluntary community education..fine by me.

If you want religious observance promoted in your child's school then shell out the bucks to send them to a private, religious school


wasicus:: I have to say your argument is flawed. You say it is because God was removed from the school. Well where were the parents who are supposed to teach kids about God? They weren't home because they were out shopping. Where was the local priest who would teach about God? He was too busy trying to get religion taught as science to teach kids about God. You blame the lack of God in school on all the wrongs..I blame the LACK of good parenting and discipline. I say yes sir, and yes ma am..I did not bring guns to school and not once in my public school education did someone read to me the bible..but the teacher would send me to principle if I being bad and principal would call my parents. Now when that happened did my parents fly down and accuse the school of abusing my "fragile developing mind" NO they smacked me upside head and told me to stop being a little brat. If I wanted an outfit that was inappropiate my parents said no and If I bought it they threw it out telling me to stop acting like a sleazy moron.

So before you try to put God into schools why don't you and everyone else try actually RAISING your children to know right from wrong, to have respect, stop claiming kids are so fragile a stiff breeze will cause a brain hemorrhage and prevent all this teenage violence+sex abuse by actually doing some PARENTING and then school can educate the kids about real world stuff which is whole point of school. Maybe if we let the schools educate the kids while parents do the actual upbrining, which is how it is supposed to be, then the kids won't be so screwed up with all these voids in them because parents refuse to fill them in.

and Hyzakyt please please please for the love of whatever God you believe in think before you type. evolution is a SCIENTIFIC THEORY not a religion and it is not a hard concept to understand. Evolution has been tested scientifically and real data has been recorded as opposed to the religion of creationism which has data of "because we say so". It is nonsense like what you said that is tearing society apart because it is false and you pretend it is the most enlightened idea ever conceived. I will say this: if evolution is a religion then it is by far the most loving, tolerant, decent and moral religion and in comparrison christianity looks like cannabalism

Answer 4

No, I do think an elective should be available on religious studies for those who are interested in other cultures and religions. But i dont think any single religion should be observed in public schools.

Answer 5

no...it's only the legitmate function of the family and the heads of the religion itself. The schools only legitimately need to ALLOW observance of each one. (If someone wants to bow their head, or remove their shoes, w/e---WITHIN REASON). PUBLIC education should appeal to the PUBLIC in general --- without any references in the education to any particular religion.

If a family wants their personal religion honoured at a place of education,,,they need to see to it their children are educated in a school of their RELIGION. Period!

Answer 6

I can tell you that when God was observed in school and the Bible was read that kids were not carrying their guns to school and shooting each other.They said yes Maam,and no Maam,they helped their parents,they respected their elders.Now God has been taken out and our schools have become gang and battle fields,kids are lazy,and totally disrespectful.A little common sense tells me that there is a connection.The fear of the Lord is the begginning of knowledge.Without God,there is no knowledge.Regardless of how much book learning you try to cram down their throat.They say that it violates peoples freedom of choice to include God.What if I choose to disagree with schooling? Do my children still have to go to school?Of course.Because freedom in todays society applies to everyone ,but those that love the Lord.

Answer 7

It is important to teach children about the critical role religion has played in the development of human civilizations. It is NOT the role of public education to demonstrate a bias in favor of one religion or another.

Answer 8

I dont think inhibiting relgion or quenching the beliefs of chidren or discouraging or derailing them is a legitimate purpose of seculare education

Answer 9

No - No and No!!!! The purpose of education is to educate - not pass along religious propaganda.

Answer 10

Depends what you mean by promoting religious observance.

Probably NOT.