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To: The Philosopher who wrote (26929)	9/13/2001 1:17:31 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 82486

You said I wasn't fit to teach. You would not seek to ban those who are not "fit" to teach? I certainly would. So unless someone commits actions that actually affect their teaching such as "If a teacher were to wear nazi emblems on her clothing and refuse to remove them on the grounds that they merely represented expressive speech and she had a right to express her thoughts" they are FIT. IMO. I cannot imagine you meant anything else Chris- you've said it more than once. As for your example of the person who thinks people will burn in Hell- they have EVERY right to teach, they are fit to teach, as long as they keep that view to themselves on school time. Expressions on your off time are your personal right, unless you somehow break the law in your manner of expression. We have religious freedom Chris- if it doesn't allow you to believe people are going to burn in Hell if the don't accept Jesus Christ (without sharing this to your class- just believing it) and keep your job, than religious freedom is meaningless and those antidiscrimination protections based on religious freedom are meaningless as well. You would want someone removed from the classroom because of their personal and unexpressed religious beliefs???? Even if they never ever share those beliefs on school time? Can you mean this? "If a primary school teacher, for example, were to say "it is my teaching philosophy that any student of mine who has not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior is damned to burn in hell eternally" I would seriously consider asking that they be removed from the classroom. " You know I am no friend to religion. But teachers have every right to their religious (and political) beliefs- however extreme they may be, and they have the right not to be fired for them, as long as they do not inculcate the children in their charge, and they perform their jobs adequately.

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