Reply #172: They are wasting time either way.

[tblue37]

When I was in school (I graduated from high school in 1968), students often left class for an hour during the day to go to religion classes.

I am not religious, but I have to say some things that will probably annoy the other on this thread who are not religious.

Schools often waste class time to hold rallies for the other American religion—sports—and the students are not even permitted to skip those sports religion “classes.” Attendance at pep rallies is mandatory in most schools.

Schools waste lots of time for lots of dumb reasons. And as for the coloring sheets, that’s what our grade school students are doing most of the time anyway—and what our middle school and high school students are doing, too, from the evidence of their educational preparation.

I don’t approve of students going to religion classes in the middle of the school day, but then again I also don’t approve of most of what goes on in schools under the guise of education anyway. Schools are basically just conformist social clubs and arenas for indoctrination. In my opinion, the students who leave school for religion classes and the students who stay in the classroom are all being miseducated. It’s all pretty much a waste of time.

By the way, I teach college. I see what our public education system produces.