Christian Books at Public School Book Fair

A fellow freethinker discovered christian books at her daughter's school book fair, in Wichita, Kansas. This is an outrage and should never have occurred. I live thirty minutes from Wichita, and frankly this doesn't surprise me at all.

It is quite common in Kansas to hear people talking about doing stuff like this. Multiple times at work people will hand me tracts. I will gladly take them with a smile, and than proceed to the trash can. Kansans love to indoctrinate. I love to spread the good word of rational thought myself, but I try not to preach to someone doing their job. I also avoid school children while preaching. As I have said in past entries I am trying to become an elementary teacher. Now, I don't discuss my faith in schools and people would get rightfully angry if I did. We need to stand up and say don't indoctrinate our children. Luckily the voice saying this is getting louder.

This story was brought to us by the friendly atheist you can get to his blog from here. The link will take you straight to the article in question.

The freedom from religion foundation has been informed and will be taking action. I wish them luck, but I think this case is a pretty straight forward violation of church and state. Christians need to realize they can believe what ever they like, but they can't force our school children to believe it.

Give me a child for his first seven years and I'll give you the man.

My God Think of the Children

This my good friends is ridiculous. Once again the christian right wingers are concerned children will learn that homosexuals exist. You have just got to love how people can be so openly bigoted, but if they read this post they would accuse me of being a bigot and intolerant. I can not understand religious people.

I would like to thank the Friendly Atheist   for bringing this video to my attention. Give him a view I thoroughly recommend his blog for everyone.

Live long and prosper

Wichita Schools.

I am currently attending Wichita State University. I consider this a fine school and i am going for a degree in Elementary Education. I want to teach about 5th grade. I am taught by former members of the school district. I am told stories of when they were in the system. I hear stories of how they got religion in their class. Wait a minute! nope, that's right religion they sneak in the classroom.

I have had several teachers over my term at WSU, not all of them have promoted religion but some have. One teacher I have at the current moment used to principle over a school of disabled children called Griffinstein Middle School. She has brought up her religion several times during class, but the statement that got me was: "At Griffinstein we were able to get away with a lot more than other schools."

Yea, the statement means what you assume. She is my social studies methods teacher and often brings religion into play. She has told many stories, about Griffinstein, most of them seem to be secular, but there is the occasional religious reference. She has pointed out several times that in our schools we might avoid it cause the students might complain. So basically if your in a special ed school you can preach cause they won't complain. Yea, not really.

Other teachers of mine will talk about giving information that openly reference god and Christianity. They say something along the lines if you can prove its a folk story or something relating specifically to a topic you can get away with it. I feel like saying something to them during this time until the rest of my class seems to be getting into the idea. So if you have kids in Wichita Schools it might be worth asking them what they learned today.