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.”
Technically then, the teacher is correct. God is not an idol. Nor is Jesus.
She said her daughter was told to start over and pick another idol."
No, no, no... you're supposed to pick a false idol, you silly kid.
If the paper is any indication it looks like the assignment was something along the lines of "Who do you look up to?" And I'm sure the intent was for them to write about an adult in their life.
Still, if I were that mother then I'd sit the kid down and have a talk with them. If I were a parent I wouldn't mind so much playing second fiddle to God. But coming in after Michael Jackson????
This was probably around 1967 -- a kid stood up and talked about what it meant to be Jewish, and how he had gone to Israel and how some people dressed over there. I thought it was fascinating; it really stuck with me. I don't think the school thought it was at all controversial.
IIRC, the kid grew up and enlisted in the IDF. Quite a guy!
“Why I look up to the Golden Calf”
Yes. Lesson learned. You can write assignments about famous homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders pedophiles but no God or Christin people. Got it? Good girl.
“He’s very shiny and doesn’t judge us like that mean old Yahweh!”
See that messy paper? The use of “graphic organizers” muddles thinking and encourages messiness. Children have to learn how to use an outline format, which is what I attempted to do with my fourth and fifth graders. I would have handed this draft back because of the markers all over it and had her redo it in a legible form, preferably in an outline, or just paragraphs.
You are doing your students a great service. Thank You!
Thanks. I “retired” this year. I couldn’t deal with the insurmountable wall any longer. But it was gratifying when some kids told me they learned a lot from me at the end of the year each year.
Maybe if she wrote about MohamMAD or Islam or Allah .....
Would be great if kids got some small postit’s and wrote Jesus or God on them and planted them all over the school. The libs there would freak, close the school down, call the SWAT team and then fumigate the school.
Well, it posits an absolute that transcends our experience, which is matter and energy. Bishop Berkeley, way back in the 18th Century argued that these things are in fact ideas.
Saw it on a different write-up by Fox
Or even Mary, the Mother of Jesus, true God and true man.
Another reason to homeschool.
ARTH
Teachers are poorly educated. They are led by even more ignorant people who are paid much more than they deserve.
I know teachers are held in disdain, but the truth is that for 2 election cycles the teacher’s union has been kicking our ass. The exception is Wisconsin...and that’s only at a state level.
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