Because public schools are secular.
Why do you think American public schools are secular??
Were the public schools in the United States always secular institutions in the United States??
If you sent your children to school, wouldn’t a moral component to
your childrens’ instruction at the place they attended school be important to you??
that “there are very many by whom a satisfactory answer to the questions ‘can we educate our children there, and enjoy ourselves and secure to them the blessings of Sabbath instruction,’ would be demanded before they would determine to emigrate.”
Whether you like it or not, we’re a nation of separated church and state, so public schools should not be receiving any sort of religious guidance in the classroom.
That’s just some mens’ personal interpretations of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, combined with a statement made by Thomas Jefferson.
That is is a rather very
broad interpretation, if you study it.
And that interpretation does not necessarily mean it is a correct interpretation.
In fact, Supreme Court decisions like Dred Scott V. Sanford and Plessy v. Ferguson were specifically overruled by other U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
A lot of these U.S. Supreme Court Justices were Freemasons; sounds like they are imposing their Freemasonry on every American citizen in the United States: Justices Hugo Black, Stanley F. Reed, William O. Douglas, James F. Byrnes, Robert H. Jackson, Wiley B. Rutledge, Harold H. Burton, Frederick M. Vinson, Thomas C. Clark, Sherman Minton, Earl Warren, John M. Harlan, Thurgood Marshall, John M. Harlan, and Potter Stewart were all Freemasons.
That’s 15 / 20 of the U.S. Justices appointed between 1932-1962.
Talk about Equal Justice Under Law; sounds like a Lodge meeting to me.
Source: H. Paul Jeffers: Freemasons: Inside The World’s Oldest Secret Society, Citadel Press: Kensington Publishing Corp, New York, 2005 (pp. 213-221).
And public schools, at least in theory, were supposed to be controlled on a local basis and the Federal Government was not supposed to get involved (even today, the Federal Government minimally funds public education; they are state run and local School Board run institutions).
You can’t teach just a “Christian” way or a “Jewish” way, because then people of strong faith who don’t fall into the predominant category will feel discriminated against.
Do you really believe that??
Do you really believe that would necessarily be the case??
Following that line of reasoning, you couldn’t have a Homecoming King or Queen because other students might feel that they’re ugly, or sex education courses because religious students might feel funny or face some harassment because they’re not included in their fellow classmates’ contraception classes; you couldn’t have student picked teams in gym class because some students might feel inferior or be harassed.
Here’s the experience of a 20 year old German college student (a friend of mine from Berlin) who attended religion classes in the German public school system:
We did a lot of handicrafts or painted pictures while the teacher told us stories from the bible (but they never read FROM the bible).
So we learned what Christianity is about and why we celebrate the various holidays but we never actually read from the bible in fact I
never have seen a bible in these classes.
We didn’t pray or anything like that it was very superficial and the name “religion” doesn’t fit to well. It was always very relaxing.
I thonk we didn’t talk too much about other religions (execpt for Judaism) and there have never been any fights because of religions. I didn’t really understand as a kid why the other kids (the Catholics) had a different teacher and a different room. Many children didn’t visited the religion classes because they preferred staying at home or there were no classes for the religion they belonged to (muslims).
That would have meant that we would have four groups which had to fight each other
that would never have worked.
Religion was never a issue for me (or my classmates) in school. We found other reasons to like or not like someone.
You see?? I don’t think WWIII is going to break out.
I think if religion and morality is handled in a tolerant and mature manner, with (name removed by moderator)ut from many groups, there would be no discrimination.
Religion and morality are important elements in a student’s education.
Without a religious or moral education, students can make poor choices that may affect their future:
Religion was once deemed to be a function of the public school system.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which antedated the First Amendment, and continued in effect for at least 100 years, provided in Article III that
“Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
I think you are right there’s a potentiality that a form discrimination could possibly develop (in the past, the King James Bible was the only Bible allowed by school officials), but if the program was administered with controls, checks, and balances, with (name removed by moderator)ut from many faiths and a spirit of tolerance, the discrimination would be eliminated.
We can go the route you’re advocating, but that is definitely not the principles this nation was founded on; it is not the United States with its historical, cultural, religious, moral, and traditional foundations.
What you get with what you’re arguing for is the materialistic, hedonistic, atheistic, relativistic, and politically corrupt society that we have today.
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