My parents sending me to a catholic high school solidified my becoming atheist. Religious beliefs being condescendingly stuffed down your throat in the form of an extra class tends to make teenagers spiteful.
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I had to send my son to a parochial elementary and middle school because I wouldn't send a dog to the public schools in our city, and I couldn't afford Montessori. I was afraid they'd convert him.
Instead he's a bigger atheist than me!
That’s what’s hilarious, they don’t realize it’s forcing it on the kids that increases the risk they’ll grow to loathe it or see it as a means of manipulating others.
Millions of new kids will now know how boring as fuck the Bible is
I'm in a fortunate position to be able to send my kid to private montessori school in Texas. The public schools here are totally fucked. The state has been cranking down funding for years, and the tax recapture system the state set up takes funding from urban districts and sends it to rural districts. Then, when the urban districts languish with significant underfunding, if even one school in a district receives a failing grade on standardized assessments 3 years in a row, the state can come in and take over the school district. They've already done it to Houston ISD, and they're about to do it to Austin ISD. Education in Texas is absolutely fucked
beginning 2030
Those motherfuckers. They're banking on taking back control of everything by the next big midterm and us forgetting in the meantime.
Don't let them.
Nah that's not what this is, they just can't change curriculum materials that quickly. This is the Texas State Board of Education we're talking about, these people are fucking morons and are not playing chess here
While it is absolutely true that an imperial fuckton of English literature is influenced by or references the Bible, and that an understanding of the Bible does provide one with a more rounded understanding of said literature, I can't help but feel that that's not at all what this is about.
Of course it's not, and we shouldn't even be considering any cockamamie rationalization they're offering. It's mass delusional fantasy, and it has no place in basic education.
If a parent wants their kid to learn the ways of the Cannibal Zombie Death Cult, that's what Sunday school is for, and if they want to be the best weirdos on the block, they can psychologically abuse their children at home. They can even shell out of their pocket and send their kid to a special school for ignorant weirdos. But the one place their future psychopath won't be getting indoctrinated is in public school.