Religion in Schools I practically a necessity, isn't it?

Question

Lord knows I don't want or need the responsibility of having to pass my religion on to my children--what an unnacceptable burden that would be! We send them to school for a reason--so that the teachers can raise them and we have time for more important things--I don't care if my kids have problems, or need guidance, they start whining and it's off to school they go! So of course the school should have to teach them religion as well--it's what I would do if I was raising them........................

Answer 1

Dude we should implant microchips in everyones head at birth with the Bible in it, and stuff!

Answer 2

One of the posts on here indicated that you're just being sarcastic. Well, this is one subject that should be considered serious and not used as a joke in any way. Teachers are here to educate our children not to raise them. That's your job! It is up to you to teach your children about God and partly the Church you go to also. Church schools are expensive, but both of my parents worked so they would make sure my brothers and I had a good Christian education. If you feel that it's an unacceptable burden for you to do that and the schools don't do it where do you think they are going to get the spiritual education and guidance they need?

Answer 3

It is not the natural thing to do in school. There are thousands of religious practices in the world, and to teach any would offend everyone else. Further, school teachers are not ministers, so even if they shared your faith, and so did all the students, the teacher would be unprepared to do so. We have made it against the law to do so, so there will be no state sponsored religion, a fate many left Europe to get away from and so it was put into the Constitution. It is best if you find it right for your children, to teach it at home and avoid all the problems of bringing it to school.

Answer 4

hmmm - not sarcastic at all, are you.
Actually, as a Christian, I agree with the point you are making. I have even opposed Christian private schools.
On the other hand, I object to the fact that in some places a teacher is not even allowed to express their faith in a natural way - as if it were something dirty. The responsibility of bringing children up in their faith rests on the parents. But there should be freedom of religious expression in the schools (while of course not allowing teachers to foist their particular beliefs on the children: just be allowed to express who they are).
EDIT:
Miley Cyrus' fan: one problem with having religion in school is that they are not likely to be teaching your children the same religion you live and teach them at home. It could really be annoying, to say the least. No, I prefer to trust myself with that teaching.

Answer 5

IF you don't want the responsibility of passing on your beliefs or excepting the teacher to RAISE your kid you are NUTS....It is not the schools responsibility to BABYSIT your kids or teach religion that is your job as a parent if you think it is their job you suck as a parent, and that is what is wrong with kids now days parents too busy with themselves to care about their kids so pass them on.
You want your kid to learn religion send them to a religious school where they teach and pray
BUT DON"T FORCE IT IN MY CHILD'S FACE

Answer 6

Any teacher can show hostility to a certain religion and thus it is best for there to be no religious classes in public schools. In private schools anything goes, but public schools should be as neutral as possible in matters of conscience - it is the responsibility of the parents to teach their children manners, ethics, and such.

Answer 7

Of each and all the forces that have worked and are nonetheless working to mold the destinies of the human race, none, easily, is stronger than that, the manifestation of which we call faith. All social companies have as a history, someplace, the workings of that unusual tension, and the final cohesive impulse ever delivered into play among human gadgets has been derived from this ability. this is glaring to all those that throughout the time of very many situations the bonds faith have proved extra ideal than the bonds of race, or climate, or maybe of descent. this is a nicely-time-honored certainty that persons worshipping the comparable God, believing in the comparable faith, have stood via one yet another, with plenty extra effective potential and fidelity, than human beings of in basic terms the comparable descent, or maybe brothers. countless tries have been made to song the beginnings of religion. In each and all the classic religions that have come right down to us at present, we come across one declare made--that they are all supernatural, that their genesis isn't, because it have been, in the human strategies, yet that they've originated someplace outdoors of it.

Answer 8

I really hate name-calling, and I mean I really can't stand it at all, but I must say:

That will raise a generation of brainwashed communists who can't think for themselves.

But if that's what the American people want, then by all means forfeit the parents right to teach their own children. It's about time this country throws out all it ever stood for and embrace totalitarian communism.

Answer 9

I just loved, "...of course the school should teach them religion as well--it's what I would do if I was raising them..." Wow, I just love that statement. I was a school board member for several years. I wanted to mandate Buddhism and Taoism class every day but nobody got on broad with that. They complained that it violated separation of church and state. Furthermore, one guy thought we should teach Hinduism and form a more formal caste system on our town. I told him "NO WAY", I want a more formal oligarchy of the rich.
Wow, isn't democracy fun to play with.

Answer 10

There also stands A reversely bad ruling way the other way. What brainiac decided that it's agreeable to teach our children evolution, merely a theory never 100% proven as fact. If anyone dares to be honest they would have to admit this country was established as 'One Nation UNDER GOD'. Thanks ACLU's for defending everything except this country's fading good character.

Answer 11

Perhaps wise schoolmasters will decide for his pupils. Parents are free to send their children to schools with or without teaching religions.
And years later people will see again the benefits of teaching religions.