From what I have observed, Christians aren’t tolerated very well in public schools, being that the majority of the administrators and other teachers tend to be politically correct left-leaning liberals.
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I live in a rural area of a red state. Here, teachers need to conform ( at least outwardly) to the standards of the community. However....Even here I believe that Christian teachers should abandon the government schools.
1) It is impossible to have a religiously neutral school. If Christ is scrubbed from the classroom and textbooks, something **will** fill that vacuum. It may be agnosticism, new-ageism, global warming earth worship, paganism, atheism, Marxism, or a combination of some or all of these or other philosophies. When the Christian teacher agrees to suppress Christianity, unavoidably he or she will promote and nurture a non-Christian worldview in his or her students.
2) The Christian teacher is teaching his or her students to compartimentalize religion. Somehow religion is OK for the home and on Sunday, but not OK in the workplace or school. She or he is also falsely teaching the student that Christianity can be put away for a more “convenient” time. Even his or her presence as an employee in the government school models this false philosophy since he or she must be silent and/or very careful about speaking about Christ.
3) Teaching in the government schools is, in a way, by his behavior a form of denying the witness of the Holy Ghost. The Christian teacher **knows** that Christ’s mission and message are true, but suppresses and hides this knowledge from his students. He does not confidently proclaim his testimony to his students at appropriate times during his lessons.( I am reminded of Peter denying that he knew Christ 3 times before the cock crowed.)
It is impossible for a Christian teacher to be true to Christianity and the secular mission of the government schools. He must be a liar to one or the other.
I’ve tried to bow out of this once, to no avail. Lady, I can’t begin to tell you how far out you are on this one, so I’m not going to try, so let me reiterate: We don’t even have enough common ground here to even disagree. Consequently it must follow that we’ll never find the commonality to agree on anything that even touches the periphery of this subject.
I take it you do not work for a large corporation.