Letters to the Editor
SueNJ97
Published Letters: 173 Editor's Choice: 4
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I was just confused by Cary's advice, but...
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was also confused by the revulsion/hate. I mean, it's a religious school.
I could see the point if the LW's friend had somehow been asked to do this by a bunch of people who had seized control in the public schools. It's not science, shouldn't be taught as science in the public schools and we shouldn't stand by and pretend otherwise.
However, what I always say when this rears its ugly head in the public schools is, if you don't want your kid exposed to actual science in the public schools, send them to religious school, where they can teach something else, or home-school them. So, that seems to be what's happening here. The LW's friend is being asked to teach something that isn't science, as science, in a religious school. The parents are sending their little darlings there for at least partly that reason. They want them to learn exactly this stuff. I would avoid the place like the plague if I had children for exactly the same reason.
It seems that the LW's friend is asking for his opinion, but I would lay off the hate and revulsion. Apparently he hasn't decided if he can bring himself to do it yet. You treating him like a leper for doing something that is actually completely within the scholl's reason for being is kind of, well, silly.
And I wouldn't allow a child of mine (if I had one) anywhere near a place that taught young-earth creationism. Hell, I wouldn't let my cats near that school. But he's not talking about teaching it in the public schools.
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@Paul in KY
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do I feel sorry for them? Yes.
I would rather spend my energies trying to make sure that science is taught as science in the public schools. I'm not going to spend it dealing with the rest of it. I'm just not. If that offends you, sorry. Not going to rise to the occasion or the bait. We allow parents to home school and send their children to religious school in this country and yes, they learn things I don't like. That's the way it is. I am much more concerned with the public schools, thank you very, very much. You can spend your energies elsewhere if you want.
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@Paul in KY
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You just don't get it. Their parents have a right to send them there. I'm sure you'd like to deny them that right, just as some on the other side of this debate would like to have denied me the right to have science taught to me in the public schools, and probably feel sorry for me and think I'm going to hell. I'm probably wrong for feeling sorry for them. But, unlike them, I don't think they are going to hell, because I don't believe in hell. I just think they are getting an inferior science education.
But, I'm still going to spend my time and energies fighting to have science taught correctly in the public schools. Not trying to stop parents from exercising their right to educate their children in religious schools, if that's what they want to do.
And, I'm not going to waste any more time with you.