Some front line views of the war against God.

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It is something that will depend person to person. Some people just shouldnt be teachers, its that simple.

Yeah. With the teacher I was thinking of most, she was more a math teacher anyway. I like how there really isn't, to my knowledge, any way that ideologies can conflict with mathematics -- the numbers can't lie.

I am planning on becoming a teacher after I finish my masters, and I have every intent of trying to teach my students about everything, even things I dont believe in or dont like, but then again its teaching philosophy, so its a bit more suited for that kind of thing.

I like this. If more educators had that philosophy, maybe we would have a better education system. Wait, no, maybe if it wasn't so "uncool" to be smart in America we would have a better education system. It really isn't the school's responsibility to teach, it's the student's responsibility to learn. The smartest students aren't the ones that are taught the best, they're the ones that go out and learn shit on their own.

Of course I am! I'm not holding a gun to their head and making them attend church! They already look forward to going. Call it indoctrination, call it ritualistic, call it a hobby...the point is, it's what they want to do. And it would actually be selfish of me to try and stop them from going...not the other way around.

If I might ask, how old are your children?

Regarding this particular topic and the relevancy of the issues at hand for biased parents, I don't see how it could do any harm to just move on to another topic. If it's purely theoretical on both sides of the spectrum anyway, I don't see the need for it to be taught in our schools...especially when it could be misconstrued for fact by a biased science teacher. And I'm not just referring to evolutionary leaning teachers/professors here, either. It works both ways. The zealous parents (on both sides) would be able to sleep easier at night, and the children would be free to focus on more important areas of science while in class.

Why should things that are purely theoretical not be taught in school? Just because some things are just theoretical doesn't mean the knowledge of them is a lesser form of knowledge.

I find everyones viewpoint intriguing on this matter, which is why I'm still hanging around!

I like being around people, one of the reasons being that it exposes me to other viewpoints, some of which I agree with and some of which I don't. This thread has started to go in a different direction and I like that -- the old direction was getting a bit stale.