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Originally Posted by garysher  All the major ones that are represented by the children at the school - Christianity, Judaism, Islam.
If they ever find a Kwanzaa kid maybe they should discuss that too) if anyone can ever figure out what it is!)
My children went to a Church of England primary school in London, which also had children of many other faiths. There was no compuncion about discussing, say, Judaism at Hannakah, and what it all meant.
In striving to be more "free" and "equal" America sometimes end up being ultra-prudish and more constrictive.
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Why should elementary schools teach about religion? How much time out of the class day do you propose using to teach this? Who should design the curriculum for elementary school religious studies? Why only those three religions? There are many, many religions. Why not take the time to discuss them all? Why were so many children of different faiths left out when it came time to discuss religion at your children's school? Weren't they marginalized when their faith was not discussed?
My feeling is that the public schools should be kept religion-neutral. I can see a lot of value in an elective comparative religion course in high school, but I believe that parents, not govt, should be responsible for teaching their kids about religion if they choose to do so.
By the way, there are fundies who would have a serious freak-out if anything other than Christianity was taught in school.
I say, leave it to the parents. |