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39 | 41.49% |
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| I think we need to take all religious holidays out of public school calendars |
  
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27 | 28.72% |
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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... Quote:
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Spirituality never stopped me from being kind, or respecting another person. It also never made a note of music. Humans do this, not spirit.
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*Spirituality* is subjective and personal and is best left to parents if they choose to impart a set of beliefs to their children--not the public school system.
Children should not have to be *taught* any set of imaginary beliefs that have been concocted throughout the ages by a teacher in the public school system. Among the MANY other problems, I can just imagine the child who is brought up in a house raised to believe that no god exists and how sitting through these classes would make them feel. You want to raise accepting children who are aware of the diverse nature of people's beliefs or non-beliefs? Raise them that way. |
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I stated my opinion and I dont feel like I need to defend it. We obviously disagree. I am ok with disagreeing with someone. Thank you for sharing your thoughts by responding to mine, and for keeping the discussion open to other people's opinions. I am going to move on now as I have nothing else to add to the discussion... Quote:
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When I was in elementary school (waaaaay back in the 1960s) it was OK for kids who belonged to religions/faith whose religious holidays were not the standard (Christmas/Easter) to take those holidays from school as holidays/excused absences.
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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 Santerķa 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 Quote:
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