Religious Holidays in Public Schools

[Stearns]

There are many different definitions of spirituality and even more tenets on which spirituality is based. I don't know how it would be decided on which of these it "should" be based: (list borrowed, and these aren't even all of them):
Aboriginal Beliefs
African Diaspora
African Methodist Episcopal
African Religions
Afro-Brazilian
Afro-Caribbean
Agnosticism
Ahmadiyya Movement
Anglicanism
Asatru
Assemblies of God
Atheism
Bahai Faith
Baltic Religions
Baptist
Brahma Kumaris
Buddhism
Candomblé
Cao Dai
Calvinist
Catholics: Roman
Catholics: Eastern
Celtic Religions
Celtic Christianity
Ceremonial Magick
Children of God
Christadelphians
Christian Identity
Christian Science
Christianity: all
Christianity: Evangelical
Christianity: Traditional
Christianity: Progressive
Christianity: Catholic
Christianity: Orthodox
Church of Christ
Church of the Nazarene
Confucianism
Congregational Church
Dark Zen
Deism
Disciples of Christ
Divination
Divine Science
Druidry
Earth-Based Religions
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Rite Catholics
Eckankar
Episcopal
Esoteric
Essenes
Ethical Culture
Falun Gong
First Nations
Folk Magic
Freemasons
Friends (Quakers)
Gnosticism
Greco-Roman
Hare Krishna
Heathens
Hellenismos
Hinduism
Humanism
I-Ching
Indigenous Beliefs
Islam
Jainism
Jedi
Jehovah's Witnesses
Judaism
Kemetic Religions
Latter-Day Saints
Lutheran
Maltheism
Mennonites
Messianic Judaism
Methodist
Metropolitan Community Church
Mormon LDS
Mormon non-LDS
Multifaith Forum
Nation of Islam
Native American
Neo-Pagan Spirituality
New Age
New Church
Noahide Movement
Non-denominational
New Thought
Paganism
Pantheism
Philosophy
Pentecostal Trinitarian
Pentecostal Oneness
Presbyterian
Quakers
Raelians
Rastafarians
Reconstructionists
Reformed
Religio Romana
Religious Science
Roman Catholics
Runes
Salvation Army
Sant Mat
Santería
Satanism
Science of Mind
Scientology
Scientology Freezone
Seventh-Day Adventists
Shamanism
Shinto
Sikhism
Slavic Religions
Society of Friends
Sufism
Swedenborgians
Taoism
Tarot
Umbanda
Unification Church
Unitarian Universalism
United Church/Canada
United Church of Christ
Unity Movement
Urantia Book
Vineyard Churches
Vodou/Voodoo
Wicca
Witchcraft
Yoruba
Zoroastrianism

Originally Posted by softness

I know very little about music making. I am tone deaf and when my daughter tried to teach me to read music, I had a melt down because I just could not get it. So, I have very little understanding of it

but

I know that the note is flat if played without it coming from the part of the person that most would call soul.

I also know that teachers ARE so busy that they have very little time for "extras" and I think we need to adjust priorities so that we value art and music and recreation and spirituality as important as math, reading, science, etc.

And I believe that there is a huge difference between teaching an introduction to religious diversity and promoting and recruiting children to follow A faith system.

I still believe that we could weave diversity in our classes somehow. If the education system does not, then we have an era of children who will grow up knowing how to balance a checkbook but not being able to appreciate the teller at the bank they frequent except as a worker bee and not as a person they are spiritually connected to...