No- oddly enough the Episcopal school the boys attended for their first 7 years was very careful about that kind of thing and was very inclusive- the Jewish mom came in with her menorah and talked about Passover and Hanukkah and an Indian mom came in and I don't know what she talked about.
This was in public high school. To be fair, CW was- and is- an outspoken and irritatingly logical atheist and we are talking Bible Belt Texas here ,where the coaches have t-shirts that say Play Hard- only the Ls are X'd out and an R written over them. And where the team kneels in the middle of the field and prays after a game (win or lose). At least the one game I saw they did-- I wasn't much of a football fan.
This year, I was a little nonplussed at graduation when a student gave an opening prayer (I always thought that was why you had Baccalaureate services- which my boys skipped) and it didn't even PRETEND to try to include anyone but Christians- it was full of "in the name of your son, Jesus Christ' type phrases. I tend to be pretty tolerant of this, but I thought this was rude- it's just good manners to at least make it a generic god prayer. There were almost 500 kids in that class, and there were Jewish, and Muslim, and atheists, and agnostics, so I thought that was out of line. |
