Posted on 10/27/2015 7:16:50 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
KATY, Texas – A Texas seventh-grader is standing up for her religious beliefs after she alleges her teacher forced students to deny that God is real, and threatened them with failing grades if they don’t agree. Jordan Wooley, a seventh grade student at West Memorial Junior High School in the Katy Independent School District, testified at a school board meeting last night about an assignment in her reading class that caused a serious controversy, and expressed frustration about her teacher’s atheist indoctrination. “Today I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith and told me that God was not real. Our teacher had started off saying that the assignment had been giving problems all day. We were asked to take a poll to say whether God is fact, opinion or a myth and she told anyone who said fact or opinion was wrong and God was only a myth,” Wooley told board members.
Students immediately objected, Wooley said, but the teacher refused to consider their position. The teacher, “started telling kids they were completely wrong and that when kids argued we were told we would get in trouble. When I tried to argue, she told me to prove it, and I tried to reference things such as the Bible and stories I have read before from people who have died and went to heaven but came back and told their stories, and she told me both were just things people were doing to get attention. “I know it wasn’t just me who was affected by it. My friend, she went home and started crying. She was supposed to come with me but she didn’t know if she could” because she was so upset, Wooley said...
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Ceaselessly and shamelessly these intellectual terrorists wage asynchronous warfare to bring our babies into submission to their worldview. These jihadists make no secret as to their intention to socially engineer and reshape our children into androgynous socialist goose-stepping ubers-scoffers. If there is a god for the scholastic gods, only Allah the distant and unknowable totalitarian moon god of the Nabataeans, meets their criteria. What can free our children from this new totalitarian system? What can save them from the zeitgeist? Perhaps only pulling our kids out and teaching them God's life giving Word...
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
I wonder how many news outlets are trying to get the name of that teacher about now?
Texas, the red state?
Ask the student involved the name of the teacher.
This is what happens when you keep bragging about Texas being an awesome economy. The danger?
YOU ATTRACT IDIOT LIBERALS!
If Perry and the rest of these clowns said “Texas sucks, we have lots of guns and racist rednecks”, I’m sure a very few liberals will go there.
YOU ATTRACT IDIOT LIBERALS!
If Perry and the rest of these clowns said “Texas sucks, we have lots of guns and racist rednecks”, I’m sure a very few liberals will go there.
Puhleeze! Texas been growin their own liberals for for a very long time, where were the Castro boys imported from, oh yeah born there! The liberal in Texas oozes from Austin and every other university town, just like it does in every other state, but people always want to blame other states for their home grown problems.
Issues like this in Texas seem to be in the news every other week. Is Texas still better than a lot of other states? Heck ya, but it sure as hell isn't perfect.
Katy, a burb of Houston just slightly less liberal than the keep Austin weird crowd
Let not many of you become teachers of the law, for as such you will incur a stricter judgement!
Judgement day cannot come soon enough for. This Spawn of Satan.
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Well her mother does have a Facebook page. I imagine a lot of people have already asked her. I’m sure the school will side with evil and refuse to give out the name of the teacher but I’m sure a little visit to their school library and small talk with the librarian would probably produce it...: )
I’m sorry, but you are wrong about Katy being liberal. It leans much more Republican. This teacher messed with the wrong school district. Katy ISD takes such issues seriously and the kids and parents know their rights and aren’t afraid to speak up. It is one of those school districts people want to move into - consistently excellent, though nothing is perfect.
OK, I think I’ve got this one figured out. I’d been wondering how this came up in a reading class. I’m betting the teacher gave the students a list of statements, and then asked them to label each statement as either a fact, an opinion or a myth. For instance...
A. Salt dissolves in water. Fact because it can be tested.
B. The Republican Party is good. Opinion because people will disagree.
C. God Exists. Tricky!!
It isn’t a Fact because I know of no way to test it at present.
It isn’t an opinion, because it is either true or not true, whether people disagree or not.
Now look at a simple definition of the word myth:
1. a usually legendary narrative that presents part of the beliefs of a people or explains a practice or natural phenomenon,
2. a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone.
The teacher is right. But....the teacher needs to explain that...
1...What we believe to be facts sometimes turn out to be wrong.
2...Opinions are almost always partly right and partly wrong.
3...Myths are sometimes mostly true; and sometimes entirely based on truth.
There is nothing wrong with being a myth.
This might be a bit much for seventh graders, especially when discussing God.
Meant that Houston was liberal.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hOUVHBf0DtR15s7sHNLFWj7HkI_qXcZhpCI_rBpMGhw/pub?output=html
Somebody want to remind me again about the awesome awesomeness of Texas, ........ again?
Somebody want to remind me again about the awesome awesomeness of Texas, ........ again?
“Texas, the red state?”
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing! There’s a turd in Texas’ punchbowl for sure!
They better quit killing bikers and get on with what really needs doing!
Above post came from here. http://www.katyisd.org/campus/WMJH/Pages/default.aspx
Ok, I understand, but while Houston, the city, is liberal, the suburbs are quite conservative and nice, as probably can be said for most areas containing large liberal cities.
I had a student who had a T shirt that read:
“God is dead”
Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead”
God
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