Utah, USA: Uproar and apologies when public school teacher forced Catholic student to wipe Ash Wednesday cross off his forehead

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Doesn’t a discussion about the merits of the education system warrant its own thread? Most of the posts on here are not even about the news story anymore.
 
What’s your point? An income is necessary to live. Would teachers work for free? Most of them would not, because they have to live. But they chose teaching as a career path because it’s what they love.

Again, using police officers as an example, many of them do it because it’s what they love to do. But again, they have to provide for themselves and their families (and they are often underpaid too, considering their line of work). Do you think that police officers are only in it for the money too? Or doctors? Or lawyers? Or pick any other career.
 
whatistrue said:
Do you have any idea how much time and effort the average public school teacher puts in on a daily basis,
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No and I don’t care, but I have a pretty good idea of how much time and effort my wife puts in to educating our kids.
 
CTBcin said:
Do you think that police officers are only in it for the money too? Or doctors? Or lawyers? Or pick any other career.
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Of course. I think they do it to get paid. I’m a civil engineer. I do it to get paid.
 
Lemuel said:
Of course. I think they do it to get paid. I’m a civil engineer. I do it to get paid.
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Then what is so nefarious about teachers getting paid?

And this will be my last post here, since we’re getting WAY off topic.
 
Lemuel said:
Yeah? How many of these “underpaid” prison workers would do it for free?
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I don’t know about prison workers, but I doubt they’d do it for free…

The same way I don’t know how many teachers would work for free…because bills. For some people it’s tough to take on a full time job and not get paid for it, so IMHO that question is asinine (the same as the tin foil hat description of calling them prison workers) but I know some who teach that are working for a fraction of their worth.

I could have been a math teacher coming out of college, but no way was I going to take fifty cents on the dollar to be a teacher instead of an engineer.
 
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I’d much rather gamble on what bad could happen to them if they don’t get vaccinated than what might happen if they do.
 
There’s a whole host of bad things that immunizations can cause. But that should be a separate topic. Besides, I don’t participate so I don’t need to worry myself over it!
 
Lemuel said:
Why should I have to? Why not just say “no thanks”?

With home school all of that nonsense is a non issue.
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Because you’re risking a public health crisis and if your children haven’t had measles, mumps, or rubella and other hideous diseases it’s because you’re coasting on almost all of the other kids and adults being vaccinated?
 
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Although I feel a tinfoil hat meme is much more appropriate, I’ve literally face-palmed multiple times reading this thread.
 
Yes, because people didn’t suffer from such hideous diseases for all of human history until the last hundred years or so with a much higher child mortality rate and horrible pox scars and other mental and physical deformities caused by the diseases. That’s all just fake news and big pharma propaganda.
 
Mintaka said:
You missed the second cultural fail.

It is Ash Wednesday, and she gives the kid apology candy!

Haha!

Well, hopefully folks learned something.
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I did totally miss that! Haha!

The teacher could’ve only done worse by giving the kid beef jerky as a mea culpa.

I, too, think the teacher made an honest mistake, though one that really shouldn’t have been made. What is it to her that the student has an ash cross on his forehead? How is that at all “inappropriate”? Would she say the same about cruciform jewelry? Sounds like all ended well, though.
 
We’re still waiting on you to list those three bad things immunizations can supposedly cause.
 
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