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To: Brumar89 who wrote (216451)	8/21/2007 2:17:56 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

Brumar89; I don't think it should be offensive to children for them to know there are others in our society (among them their teachers) who hold religious beliefs. But see you've added your value judgement. You don't see anything wrong with the crucifix - but maybe to someone else it is offensive. You find atheism offensive and the teaching of gay animals (or whatever it is they were reading), but others don't even see it as that. You label everything you don't agree with as the evil from the liberal left - but in fact you are on the extreme of the political spectrum and there is no identifiable "liberal left" except in your mind. Look at surveys of what people believe in and there is crossovers all over the place between the issues people on the left and right identify with. Sadly we don't seem to be able to govern from the middle which I suspect is where our forefathers expected the governance to come from. steve

To: Brumar89 who wrote (216451)	8/21/2007 3:48:19 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

If no religious symbolic jewelry of any kind is allowed, and the school district has a reason for doing that, it is a blanket prohibition applying to everyone, and it is fair. If crucifixes are singled out I have no doubt it would be (and obviously has been in other cases) overturned. That is, imo, the way it should be. As for religious paintings, in the context of a varied display dealing with art history, no problem, imo. In the context of the only painting being a religious painting- problem. I don't think children are going to be unaware others hold religious beliefs. The children of the minority beliefs certainly aren't going to be unaware- they get hit over the head with the dominant religion all the time. The only people who might be unaware are the kids belonging to the dominant (Christian) culture. A story from my experience (and to my way of thinking you never need to worry about the minority religions in this country every forgetting Christians are around- or dominant): Message 15859455 Apparently the God is personal thing upset one responder to my post, but if you believe God is not personal, and that you should be out evangelizing, you really don't fit in public school. I sympathize with people who want to spread the good news, 24/7, and have their kids do it, but it just doesn't work with the constitution. IMO, of course.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (216451)	8/22/2007 3:04:29 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793990

There is no reason why any teacher can't wear any kind of jewelry she/he wishes to IMO. Others may wear a scarf, or a certain pair of shoes, or cufflinks, or WHATEVER. The day we stop letting teachers wear personal types of accessories (not including banners that say "I hate --fillintheblank--"), then we as a society are in worse trouble than we know. If we don't open a class with a prayer, then I see no reason we need to have anyone praying in schools....much less several times a day.