My " Catholic bashing history teacher " Gone too far?

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This action my not be seen as inappropriate by the school administration. There are sects/denominations that feel Catholicism is next to Satanism. If that is the belief of this school, I would advise the parents to find a new school!
 
I went to a Baptist university. Even though all the faculty didn’t have to profess to be Baptist, the professors were expected to treat their colleagues and their students with respect, conduct themselves in an ethically and morally consistent way with the school’s Christian mission, and so on.

Your Christian school probably has a similar code of conduct that the teachers need to adhere to. Just like there’s a code of conduct for students, there’s one for teachers. Go get a copy, and that will help you write your letter.

No one’s going to lose their job or get in trouble on just one issue. The first step is usually a verbal reprimand. But the important thing is to start a paper trail, to help protect not just you, but future students from inappropriate behavior, and to alert the school in general that there’s a problem in the classroom.

(Anecdote time: At the end of each semester in undergrad, we got to review our professor. My Biblical Archaeology professor was always talking about “nuts”. He’d say, “Most scholars think X, but Scholar A says Y, based on this linguistic evidence. Scholar A is such a nut. No one takes him seriously.” And so I wrote a pretty harsh review, because I’d prefer it if he knocked down Scholar A’s argument in a scholarly way, rather than presenting the reason for the opinion, calling it nuts, and moving on with the lecture. The next semester, I had a Near Eastern Studies class with him that covered a lot of the same material… and when we got to Scholar A, he was very careful to go out of his way to debunk Scholar A’s opinions in an academic manner, rather than dismissively. It was really cool to see. So rather than worrying, “Oh, he’ll get in trouble with the Department Head if I criticize his lectures–!” , instead, future classes were much stronger, because he changed his lecture style as a result of the criticism.)
 
How strange.
I’m glad it’s not like that in Australia here.The only people that dislike Christians are “left” mentality people because of Christians not supporting gay marriage etc but regarding Denominations fighting each other it’s pretty non existent.
There probably is some anti Catholic sentiment in general because of the priest child sex abuses but that’s about it.
Perhaps the OPs parents could invite this teacher over for a nice dinner and ‘enlighten’ him or would that be weird?
 
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This guy needs to be reported. At the very least he has no right to tell you not to make the sign of the cross in “his classroom” if you live in a free country. He could call whatever religious practice whatever he wants on his own time but it’s not appropriate to display his religious intolerance on the job against a student in such a hostile way. And to what I presume is a teenage girl? He’s a bully and should be reported. Cowardly man at the most, bad laps of judgement at the least.

He most likely won’t lose his job, but he may be disciplined, and he should be. If he did lose his job it would be his own fault, not yours.
 
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If you’re going to complain about the teacher’s behavior, and not report it, then you’re not doing anything positive to stop the bullying.

And I’d keep right on doing the sign of the cross.
 
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Mmm, I think it might have been more of a case of analyzing what-are-the-odds-I’ll-get-in-trouble.

If someone’s going to be treading on thin ice, you want to know ahead of time, “How’s my audience?” If someone wants to go on a racist rant against Eskimos, 99% of people in, say, Georgia, aren’t going to care. But if you want to go on a racist rant against Eskimos in Alaska— there’s a significant chance that a number of kids in the audience either are Eskimo, or have Eskimo friends and family, and it probably wouldn’t be a good idea for anyone who likes a paycheck to get that in their file. 😉

Same thing here. He’s teaching at a Christian school, so there’s a good chance there’s a significant number of people with a all-Catholics-go-to-hell or Catholics-worship-Mary or the-Pope-represents-everything-wrong-with-Catholicism backgrounds. But you’re not 100% sure that there aren’t any Catholics who have enrolled their kids, so you want to analyze the room before you say stuff that’s controversial. I bet if the OP hadn’t been in the room, he would have acted the exact same way. If there had been five other Catholics, I’m sure he would have toned it down considerably… because the chances of someone taking offense and causing repercussions would have increased fivefold.

The OP is very fortunate she has such solidarity amongst her classmates. It was a surprise to me, and I found it very touching— it was a greater surprise to him.
 
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This is absolutely inexcusable. I’m a protestant who does the sign of the cross everyday and attends Mass regularly. I’d love to sit down with this so-called “educator” and teach him a few things. Blessings to you.

ps. one of my favorite scriptures, this from the Book of Deuteronomy. God says repeatedly to Joshua, “Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you, wherever you go.”
 
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I would bet you a ham sandwich that teacher knows exactly who the handful of Catholics are in the entire school.
 
There is a good chance that the staff does consider “saving” the Catholic children to be a priority.

When I was a kid, we were homeschooled because we were on the road performing 3 + weeks out of the month. By high school, the options for cirriculum in those days was limited. As we were not Catholic, parents worked out a deal with the local Christian School where we could homeschool with them as the base. When we happened to have free days at our home, we could even go in and attend classes.

Had there been any Catholic kids, everyone would have known who they were (that town had/still has a very strong Catholic school K - 12, so, Catholics were not looking for alternatives). The kids would have been considered non-Christian and not only the staff but even the kids on “Student Prayer Council” would have been tasked with leading those poor Catholics to Christ.
 
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