Jesus Christ? Are You Kidding Me?
by Bill Dusty
Are school administrators overly sensitive when it comes to children just being children? When a kid can’t even sketch a picture without being sent to a psychiatrist, things are getting a bit too Orwellian.
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Posted by Bill Dusty
on Dec 16th, 2009 and filed under Latest Posts, Opinion, Society.
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I’ve thought about this for awhile Bill – and I could say a lot – but instead, I’ll just keep it short and sweet.
This drawing is by a 2nd grader. Most second graders don’t understand that religion isn’t welcome in the Federal Funded School system. Instead, they draw pictures of what they know, what they have been taught/instructed in, or that which is close to their hearts and thoughts.
On the other hand – teachers are adults. If they are going to teach elementary school, they should know that small children are creative in what they know and love. If adult teachers don’t understand the basic concepts of the psychology of small children, then it is my opinion that they have no business teaching them in the first place.
Zero tolerance and political correctness has gotten out of control. Federal rules and regulations concerning schools are often enforced via lack of common sense or logic. It is horrible to know that some teachers would actually refer a child to a psychologist just because of a class room drawing of his/her particular religion. If this teacher was truly offended, a letter home would have been sufficient.
To me, to ridicule or embarrass any small child because of his/her particular religion, or lack of religion, is emotional and psychological abuse. All persons, school officials, involved with this matter, should lose their jobs and get a psychological evaluation of their own.
It’s situations like this (and much much more) that is turning the public against Federal Funded Public Schools and why more and more parents are turning to home schooling and/or entertaining the idea of getting the Feds out of state schools altogether.
It’s going to happen.
Personally, I’ve never thought that religion belongs in school. Schools are there to teach the public to read, write and count. Religion is personal to the person who believes.
It hasn’t always been this way – when I was in elementary and middle school, given that I live in the south, probably about 80% of all kids were Protestant. Things didn’t really change until high school – the civil rights act had been passed and also there was much more diversity, many new immigrants moved to the Atlanta area. Still, we didn’t care – no one bothered anyone or got offended about every little thing like they do today.
It’s obvious that over the years the Federal School System has detoured from basic academics to favoring social behaviors/development and tolerance above all else. To learn social skills is a good thing – but it is now extreme to say the least.