I’m no big fan of political correctness.
And alot of little “problems” like these correct themselves.
When I was a kid, that was a funny question...the kids and most of the time even the teacher got a chuckle out of a question like that. Which in and of itself is important in breaking up the boredom and having some fun while learning.
At the same time, if mosquitos carry disease, and seem to offer absolutely no redeeming value to anything or anyone, to a child it’s a valid and wondrous question.
We of course understand how important mosquitos are in carrying disease, or even providing food to birds, frogs, fish...and so on and so on.
Back to when I was a kid...that was all there was to it.
That was that special time when people spoke freely of God, realizing he was in the background while we learned science and everything else. Our teachers, parents and all adults around us believed this and those few that didn’t, we were unaware of. But I’m sure they were there. And they weren’t threatened in any way.
Conversely, we were there to learn about science and that’s what we did. While we made little references from time to time in (every) class about God, we didn’t so much get into long discussions about what God does, why He did this or didn’t do that, I’m sure we did, but it was very infrequent as if some appreciable time in each class was spent on injecting religion, it just didn’t happen.
IF the teacher was aggravated, it was because the child was merely being disruptive and it MOST CERTAINLY had nothing whatsoever to do with religion being infused into science class, when someone made a reference to God!
Today...as the liberals have demanded we slowly lose our identity and this religious freedom, become one with the world and embrace multiculturalism and slowly destroy this country, we’re more likely to hear this question posed as a reference to Allah, or Buddha but that too wouldn’t bother me in the very least.
Teachers weren’t fixated on the PC NEA manifesto
back then, and shockingly enough, schools, while not without their problems, were not on the road to disaster, or broken beyond repair either.
In short, we weren’t socialized, we were taught.
It’s something we need desperately to get back to.
Here in Georgia it’s still somewhat like that, but in other areas, one sees the PC idiocy come to fruition. Ramming the homsexual agenda down throats, and myriads of horror stories to the point people home school or move.
Here we’re mostly conservative, mostly Christian, but it’s VASTLY different than when I was a kid. Now there’s an air of fear, a closeness between the adults and kids that broken by confusion, not just because of the God isn’t welcome issue but like I said because of the PC socialism.
I used to think we were more insulated from the madness fom a good part of the rest of the country. Georgia is trending red state more than ever, electing the first Republican governor since the civil war and so on.
And alot of people here simply would not tolerate someone DEMANDING the kids not sing Christmas carols or putting up a Christmas Tree like you see in NYC and other areas.
But a couple of things gave me a serious wake up call...the Georgia ACLU threatening the school board here with legal action if the word Christmas weren’t removed from the school calendar, a FEDERAL HOLIDAY. And they folded like a tent.
No parental involvement. No notifications. Just allow the Anti-Christian nazis to bully them around, illegally at that!
The other thing was my daughter had a shirt on that wasn’t quite the right shade of blue...navy or light blue but not royal blue polo shirts are allowed...so they made her change into a t shirt with the school logo which is the only other shirt allowed for a school function.
Seems they ran out of the logo t-shirts that day, so they made her wear a plain navy blue t-shirt. So I pointed out they forced her to change one out of reg. shirt for another out of reg. shirt.
To what end?
Come to find out, royal blue was authorized in the first place!
When I was a kid this incompetence not only wasn’t tolerated, but teachers weren’t protected by unions like this either!
But that’s how it is.
At any and all costs the vision is to ensure that God doesn’t infect science, meanwhile we’re all just to ignore the global warming cult of junk science.
I’m not buying.
You people angry with God better get a grip! Science is being eroded behind your back while you’re fixated on your God-hate!
You know who you are!
Kids can’t play dodgeball, or keep score cause like Al Franken everyone’s a winner!
There are several problems with schools and science class and God isn’t on the list.
But confusing kids and creating an inherent animosity between normal Christian children and the godless liberal NEA/ACLU agenda, there’s little wonder schools are broken.
As I pointed out, godless liberal socialism is failed policy!
One need only see how objective they are and these results by looking at:
journalism
education
politics
courts
etc.
C.S. Lewis was once asked if animals go to heaven—to include mosquitos. He said he didn’t know if animals have an afterlife, but he suggested a hell for humans could be very easily combined with a heaven for mosquitos :o)