Posted on 09/12/2013 7:50:33 AM PDT by xzins
Memphis mother Erica Shead said she was angry after her 10-year-old daughter Erin, told her Wednesday, she wasn’t allowed to write about God for a school assignment.
“It was so cute and innocent. She talked about how God created the earth and how she’s doing the best she can,” said Shead.
Erin is a student at Lucy Elementary.
Shead said Erin was told she can’t use God as an idol for the assignment.
She said her daughter was told to start over and pick another idol.
“But my teacher said I couldn’t write about God. She said It has something to do with God and God can’t be my idol,” said Shead about what her daughter told her.
Erin told her mother she was also not allowed to leave the assignment about God at school, that it must go home.
On the second try, Erin chose Michael Jackson, which was acceptable.
“How can you tell this baby, that’s a Christian, what she can say and what she can’t say?”
Shead took her concerns to the school principal at Lucy Elementary Wednesday morning.
“Can you show me this in a policy where this child cannot talk about God on paper,” asked Shead.
We reached out to Shelby County Schools Wednesday.
Spokesman Christian Ross said teachers can’t promote religion, but there is not a policy preventing students from writing assignments about any God or religion.
School officials wouldn’t say what would be done to correct the situation, since it appears the teacher was in the wrong.
Ross said they wouldn’t comment out of respect for the student’s privacy.
Shead said she is waiting to hear from the principal, “I told the principal this morning, would it be better if she wrote about Ellen Degeneres? Of course there was no comment.”
When told to pick another idol, I wonder what the teacher would have said if she picked Jesus?
—— But my teacher said I couldn’t write about God ——
So mom, have your kid write about God, regardless. And then pull your kid out of her godless school.
Or just roll over, like 90% of the parents.
Does this teacher have a name and email address?
Or Muhammad?
If she chose to write about allah, it would have been ok.
Spokesman Christian Ross
I wonder how he managed to get the job with God being hated so openly
There is great evil at work here. And the sheeple don't even see it happening, right in front of their eyes.
Idiot teacher afraid any piece of paper with the word God on it when found on school property would constitute the establishment of a state religion. Bah!
I say Athiesim IS A RELIGION, a belief system about a deity - there isn’t one - being one extreme end of the spectrum. Therefore, the purge of all things God from the public space is defacto establishing Atheism as the state religion. Sooner or later it will come down to that ruling. I hope for sooner so this nonsense will end.
Spokesman Christian Ross said teachers can’t promote religion, but there is not a policy preventing students from writing assignments about any God or religion.
Sounds like the teacher might be a radical anti-Christian of some sort.
The atheists worship the god “nogod”. They use him to explain meaning, origins, destiny. SCOTUS has called it a religion. They have campaigns, they proselytize for new members, and they even want chaplains for nogod in the military.
Sure sounds like a religion to me.
I don’t doubt for a second that Allah would have been ok with this teacher. She’d have come up with some kind of “cross-cultural” experience rationale.
There I fixed it, now she can claim moose-limb discrimination...
LOL
I don’t suppose it would be too much to ask what the original assignment was?
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and always remember being told in assignments such as these that we had to be “original” and not choose Bible for favorite book, or Jesus for idol. Or, what 3 things would you want on a desert island- except a Bible.
The teacher will be out to get little Erin for the rest of the year. Take her out of that classroom immediately.
Maybe Erin could slip something into her Wacko Jacko paper about Jesus Juice and child molestation charges.
She had to write about her #1 idol.
I started in late 50’s and graduated in 70.
My experience was different. I don’t recall those kind of instructions. The subject never came up, pro or con or at all.
Muhammad would have been acceptable. Jesus not so much.
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