I was substitute teaching at Highland Park in Dallas ISD. I mentioned to seventh graders that I didn’t go to church and the whole room erupts and they’re all like “are you a muslim?”

The woman that gave me (and my half sister up) who’s had several abortions, 9 husbands, and two children she didn’t even keep, not to mention various fraud issues etc, was still tangentially in my life and I was lectured on my lack of morality (apparently being sans religion means inherent lack of morals) at every…

“Her daughter was told to sit in the computer lab for that half-hour and read a book.”

And what they don’t call out here are the kids who attend because they think they have to, even if they don’t want to, even if they know they could technically opt out, because they are aware of the damage it would do to them socially not to attend. It’s not really possible to get those kind of numbers, since by…

And... cue white Christians blathering on about how oppressed they are that they can’t shove their faith on people in public institutions! Such delicate little snowflakes they are.

“It’s not teaching religion, but it teaches character and respect and how important it is to tell the truth,” teacher and parent Courtney Tolliver tells the Post.

Let me guess, they don’t offer similar class for any other religions do they? As much as they like to dance around it and pretend that it’s somehow not an endorsement of a religion, if they’re not applying it across the board they’re full of crap.

Ugh. When will schools stop trying to find loopholes that allow them to endorse religion and ostracize kids who don’t believe? They can say “there’s no consequences to not participating” until their faces turn blue, but it’s just not true. I used to teach at a school that did a huge annual prayer ceremony for student…

“Even though the class was optional, Deal said there weren’t any alternative lessons or activities for those who opted out. Her daughter was told to sit in the computer lab for that half-hour and read a book.”

Students at that age really aren’t prepared to tell the difference between what is history and what is religious conviction.

Can’t WAIT to find out if they have objections.

“The kids love it and the ones who don’t participate aren’t made to feel left out.”

Go FFRF! I need to remember to give them money when I stop being poor. Also, although apparently unneeded in this case, I appreciate the Satanists too. Where lawsuits sometimes fall, trolling and mockery often seem to work.

In the early 1980's, my elementary school had a two hour “study hall” every Wednesday afternoon. This was because many of the students attended a religion class at a local Catholic school during this time.

And Jesus appears quite a bit in the Quran, so you would think they would be for it.

Every time one of my fundie relatives comes out with that “..but Xianity is being pushed out of the public square!” routine, I come back with, “The taxpayers should not be footing the bill for religion.” How hard is that to understand?

“It’s not teaching religion, but it teaches character and respect and how important it is to tell the truth,”

Unconstitutional... and unethical to boot.

If it was the Quran, would the state be defending the class? Hell no!

Now hold on a minute! Which God would children prefer: an angry old dude who threatens to kill you for eating bacony goodness or a loveable, googly-eyed, sentient spaghetti cloud that just wants to feed Creation yummy (pork) ragu? I’d argue that we should let these study classes continue and let the children decide.