Reply #40: I'm amazed at your posts.

[fedupwithbush]

I live in the "bible belt" myself. And if ever kids were let out during school hours to attend church, I can assure you plenty of us would raise "hell" about it.

We can barely afford to keep the classes small and the computers running. The admin has strict rules on what constitutes legitimate time away from school. They go to Saturday school if they are tardy five times! They freak when we have a snow day because they can't figure out how to make it up. The stupid tests required take up a lot of time too. Art, music and PE are already on a 2 times a week basis. The idea that any public school would allow this floors me. If my child misses school because of an outside appointment, they have to make up their work. The class doesn't stop just because they are gone.

Would you be so gung-ho if it were open to non-Christian religions too? Somehow I just don't think so. But I'd be upset either way. Religion is something that should be taught in the home by the family. Where do these parents get off using other students state and federally funded education time to cart their kids to church! The whole deal today that a lot of teachers get sick of is the encroachment every day by parents for them to bear the brunt of raising their kids. Not just educating them for the future, but teaching them to wipe their butts, manners, how to dress, how to speak, and on and on and on. Not to mention the free babysitting they get. (That's another reason my school district freaks at snow days. A parent or two MIGHT be inconvenienced and actually have to find a babysitter or watch their child.)

But seriously, your attitude is down right anathema to me. I and my husband decide our children's religion. I don't expect or want the school involved in that in any way! And I don't want my children preached to or pushed to attend a church by anyone. And I d**n well don't want my schools teachers to sit and twiddle their thumbs on my dime while your child waltzes off to church during the school day.