Double standards are when there are a set of rules for one set of people and another set of rules for another set of people. How dose this preta in to the separation of church and state do you ask? Religion in school is my answer. We as students are not supposed to preach our religion in school. But along with that there is also a section within each of our text books that is all about religion. Teachers tell us that those are only classics and we have no reason to complain. Then they expect and in courage us to discuss about the a religiose story’s within our text books.
This act makes many students religion or not uncomfortable. I know this because I have asked several students how they felt about the issue. One student had told me how he had to go through a discussion an atheist student had brought up about his thoughts and on religion. This made the student i asked very uncomfortable and angry at the fact that the atheist student was preaching, as my friend felt, against my friends religion to his class. This act of discussing, as the teachers put it, made this ser tain student very angry at the fact that the teacher can sit there and let the student preach against someones beliefs. Knowing that many people, not only the student I spoke to, believed in what the atheist was.
So my friend was not the only one angry at that discussion and not showing it, but many were. This issue of discussion also go se other ways. For example, say a Jewish student was assigned, along with the rest of the class, a religious short story on a Christian belief. When he returns to the school and the teacher starts a discussion on the story. The teacher explains the back ground of the religion and gets into great detail.
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To this Jewish student this sound a lot like preaching the Christian beliefs to the class. There could also be a different student in the class that had the same problem and he or she just happens to be a Buddhist, Muslim, Morland, eat. This explaining of the Christian religion could sound like preaching to anyone with a different religious back ground. Anyone that can make a student quit reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every day just because of the statement, ‘One nation under God’. Those people should be paying more attention to what we are being taught in the class room than a simple statement in the nations pledge to our American flag.
Amazingly they brought The Pledge back after the incident of September 11. Which pleased many people. The point I am trying to get across is whoever made this Seperation of Church and State law needs to take a good look at our text books and list in to one of the class discussions on the subject and realize that this section in the book makes many people very uncomfortable in the classroom. One student told me that’s why they dropped the class. Because the teacher would ent get off the subject. This subject is one that should ent be required and they should find a new way or a different set of stories to get the student there standard for that section in the text book.
I may be a religion person and from it with my peers many of us think if someone is going to make a law against religion in school should they should stick to it and just completely wipe it out. This would discontinue the issue that obviously only us students can recognize. It would prevent us from struggle ing with the issue of religion in school and finding it within our text books.
