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In reply to the discussion: what are your feelings of a church bringing in activites to teach Character ed in public schools [View all]duffyduff
(3,251 posts)24. Shouldn't be on school property, but it is actually harmless
I attended it back in the 1960s when I was in grades 1 and 6. It was little more than Sunday school lessons featuring Bible stories. I came from a non-religious family, but I got my mom's permission to attend the classes on Wednesdays during the lunch hour during what was known as "release time." I was never pressured to convert or anything.
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what are your feelings of a church bringing in activites to teach Character ed in public schools [View all]
sad-cafe
Jan 2013
OP
For starters, you're assuming that this is a fundamentalist church...
Jeff In Milwaukee
Jan 2013
#62
Schools are in desperate need of warm and current ways to relate. Bullying is so major and they
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#6
welcome to DU--I am absolutely opposed to it--churches need to stay the hell away from
niyad
Jan 2013
#7
It's a foot in the door, like a door-to-door salesman. I watched my small town destroyed by
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#10
I'm fine with this, as long as they let atheistic scientists give the sermon on Sundays
Orrex
Jan 2013
#17
The Good News Club WON in the US Supreme Court (2001) to infiltrate public school property.
blkmusclmachine
Jan 2013
#20
considering what % of the nation's bullies practice their religion, I say no thanks nt
msongs
Jan 2013
#19
I was subjected to JAMES ROBISON at our school, at an assembly in the gym.
Manifestor_of_Light
Jan 2013
#27
If the school is funded by public money, it shouldn't do anything to establish religion.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#31
Absolutely opposed. THEY do peddle religion in schools. From the blog you linked,
Heidi
Jan 2013
#40
You would find it impossible to tell the story of the Good Samaritan without a religious context?
Buzz Clik
Jan 2013
#45
No, I wouldn't find it impossible. But I don't trust a church using a Core Essentials
Heidi
Jan 2013
#47
I quoted the entirety of the story with no mention of anything religious at all.
Buzz Clik
Jan 2013
#54
I highly recommend your post. The complete lack of education regarding philosophy & logic
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#81