"oh, no.....don't put anything that even refers to God in the schools.
it might stop all the killing, fighting, disrespect, etc. that did not exist when God was in the schools.
what would the liberals do then?"
That's a quote from a religious person. Does anyone really believe that schools were free of violence due to God?
2007-01-31 08:10:59 · 19 answers · asked by mutterhals 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Or that schools were ever free of violence and disrespect, period...
2007-01-31 08:14:37 · update #1
Only the religious types believe that crap.
They really are pitiful morons aren't they?
2007-01-31 08:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
Only people with their head in the sand back in the 60's and 70's will tell you there was no violence in schools, most of it never got reported. I mean hell, it was usually blown off as kids letting off some steam, right?
It's funny that you hear people say there wasn't much violence but they give not facts to back it up.
I want to know how many of these folks that seem to know so much about the "Good Old Days" actually lived in them? I did, I had more than a few fights both in and near school by fellow students.
The fact that these were not a reported doesn't mean they did not happen. Prayer in public school didn't make it less violent, it just meant there was prayer in school that favored only one religious path to the exclusion of any others.
2007-01-31 16:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There was, in some places but nowhere near as much as now. We didn't have to have Policemen stationed at our schools nor did we have to have metal detectors. We did have a Bible verse read & a prayer said every morn. at the beginning of announcements. That didn't hurt anyone either. The violence in our schools today came about when parents decided that if a child was punished in any way for anything, it would harm their phsyches. How dare anyone teach their kids there were consequences for behavior.I think nowadays & for quite awhile, parents haven't so much raised their kids as allowed them to grow up in the same house. Of course that's just how I & most folks my age group feel. I know that today's generation thinks we older folks don't know anything but remember, we didn't reach our ages by being ignorant.
2007-01-31 16:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by mazell41 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That seems to be the current consensus. There has always been violence in schools.When I was a kid, 99% of the time I got into a confrontation that led to violence it was WITH A CHRISTIAN who was trying to kick my as's because I was wearing a pentacle, go figure. With their kind of specious reasoning I could say that God was the reason so many kids back in the day lost fingers in wood-shop class, since only recently, after prayer was removed from schools, has the number of fingers lost in wood-shop annually declined.
2007-01-31 16:19:44 · answer #4 · answered by Prophet ENSLAVEMENTALITY (pbuh) 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
But...but...the phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge (which school kids recited every morning) in 1954, and *everyone knows* that the late 1950s were SO much more peaceful, and the kids better behaved, than in the 1940s!!!
*rolls eyes*
And...and...drug and pregnancy problems just don't exist in religious schools, where they still have prayer!
*rolls eyes*
And mother's milk leads to heroin use!!!
2007-02-01 09:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel like that because we were taught about God in school, we were also taught about morals, and what's right and wrong. So yes I think that if God were still allowed in schools things may be a little differ ant.
I also feel that children aren't disciplined today the way we were when I was kid. That has alot to do with it as well.
I think that it's stupid for someone not to be able to see that.
2007-01-31 16:18:16 · answer #6 · answered by smile 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's the times, not the lack of religion. If schools were religious, I think the problem would get worse, not better, because it would give the kids something else to fight about and another reason to feel outcast, if they disagree with what the majority thinks.
2007-01-31 16:18:46 · answer #7 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I believe that schools were under God's protection as long as there was prayer there....the violence just got worse without His protection.
2007-01-31 16:20:15 · answer #8 · answered by Jan P 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
whole different era.
if u put religion into schools, you will have the christians fighting the muslims fighting the atheists.
all it will do is bring yet ANOTHER form of diversity that splits the community.
100 years ago there were bullies in school.
2007-01-31 16:16:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Allah is in the Muslims schools...but yet there are the not - so - Muslims who mess up the role. Allah is in our schools but someof the ppl are not into Allah. I agree with. I know Christian religions had been in school and things where never this bad.
2007-01-31 16:17:10 · answer #10 · answered by baba where art thou 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When they took God out of schools you also took the protection away too.
2007-01-31 16:34:29 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋