Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom

[Boothbabe]

I have a problem with parents sending their children to schools instead of home schooling them.

Home schooling children presents somewhat of a problem. In order for home schooled children to get the best education possible their parents would at least have to be as qualified as teachers. They would also have to be qualified in various areas such as math, chemistry, grammar, history. Basically all of the subjects that are tought in school. If they aren't they would knowingly be holding their children back in a performance driven society. Another question is who is going to pay for the additional education of the parents, you?

 

[Will E Worm]

Home schooling children presents somewhat of a problem. In order for home schooled children to get the best education possible their parents would at least have to be as qualified as teachers. They would also have to be qualified in various areas such as math, chemistry, grammar, history. Basically all of the subjects that are tought in school. If they aren't they would knowingly be holding their children back in a performance driven society. Another question is who is going to pay for the additional education of the parents, you?

They are the parents, that's their qualification.

Also, they are the responsibility of their parents not the state.

 

[Friday on my mind]

Few points.

1.I agree with Will E that the parents have not much room to complain.They elected to send their child to the religious school instead of public or other private school and got what they should have bargained for.Yeah the schools poicy is very backward but so is a lot of what religion teaches.Don't like it ,don't send your kid there.

2. Just as point of information even some public schools have mandatory uniforms that look very similar to the religious ones.

3.But I don't agree with Will E on the home schooling.While schools primary function is to educate ,children learning social skills and such is also important IMO.Going to school with a lot of other diverse types of people is part of the education you get.

 

[Will E Worm]

3.But I don't agree with Will E on the home schooling.While schools primary function is to educate ,children learning social skills and such is also important IMO.Going to school with a lot of other diverse types of people is part of the education you get.

Homeschoolers get together and that is their child's social time.
Also, when they go to church or Bible study.

 

[Boothbabe]

They are the parents, that's their qualification

So following your reasoning someone who is as dumb as a brick is just as qualified as a teacher with a degree and years of experience :1orglaugh

Also, when they go to church or Bible study.

Since when do only relious people home school their children?

 

[Friday on my mind]

Homeschoolers get together and that is their child's social time.
Also, when they go to church or Bible study.

Your not getting much diversity going to school with only fellow people of your own religion.Or in your church.Its a big world that those places do not begin to reflect.

 

[Will E Worm]

So following your reasoning someone who is as dumb as a brick is just as qualified as a teacher with a degree and years of experience :1orglaugh

Who said they were "dumb as a brick?"

A lot of teachers aren't that intelligent and look at how many of them are abusing children.

I will never send my children to a public school. My biological children or adopted children.

Since when do only relious people home school their children?

I never said that. More people need to start homeschooling.

Your not getting much diversity going to school with only fellow people of your own religion.Or in your church.Its a big world that those places do not begin to reflect.

Diversity is not always a good thing and that is what they are supposed to do, fellowship with other Christians.

 

[Boothbabe]

Who said they were "dumb as a brick?"

You said and I quote "They are the parents, that's their qualification." So according to you even a parent that's as dumb as a brick is qualified to teach their child.

Diversity is not always a good thing and that is what they are supposed to do, fellowship with other Christians.

And in the process deny them to experience a world full of other cultures and religions.



Well, do I?

 

[Will E Worm]

You said and I quote "They are the parents, that's their qualification." So according to you even a parent that's as dumb as a brick is qualified to teach their child.

I agree. That is the only qualifications they need. :hatsoff:

And in the process deny them to experience a world full of other cultures and religions.

Well, do I?

Yes, do it. You can teach them about other cultures and why their religions are wrong. :angels:

 

[STDiva]

I agree. That is the only qualifications they need.

That's why you're wrong.

 

[Facial_King]

Few points.

1.I agree with Will E that the parents have not much room to complain.They elected to send their child to the religious school instead of public or other private school and got what they should have bargained for.Yeah the schools poicy is very backward but so is a lot of what religion teaches.Don't like it ,don't send your kid there.

2. Just as point of information even some public schools have mandatory uniforms that look very similar to the religious ones.

3.But I don't agree with Will E on the home schooling.While schools primary function is to educate ,children learning social skills and such is also important IMO.Going to school with a lot of other diverse types of people is part of the education you get.

I agree with nearly all of that, but it seems nuts that a school can have so much control over what a kid does OUTSIDE of school, off school property. Yes, people should pay attention to all details when signing their kids up for a school, but still, that much seems over-the-top.

:dunno:

 

[Will E Worm]

That's why you're wrong.

Judge Will E Worm is never wrong. :hammer: :hatsoff:

 

[D-rock]

I loved this quote from the article:

"In life, we constantly make decisions whether we are going to please self or please God. (Frost) chose one path, and the school committee chose the other," [Principal] England said.

What a humble bunch, eh?

Like a bunch of religious people and organizations they believe that they are the only ones smart or enlightened enough to know what God wants. They also never seem to have any trouble at all speaking for him or speaking as if they have his authority, even though they sure don't seem to be God.

 

[calpoon]

So following your reasoning someone who is as dumb as a brick is just as qualified as a teacher with a degree and years of experience :1orglaugh

yeah, just because your parents are idiots, it's not right that they should force thier children to be too and deny them the possibility of improving themselves.

In such a system the only people that would be able to pass on knowledge would be the people that allready possess it because there is no way for anyone else to aquire it since there is not a public body that disperses such knowledge acessible to everyone as there is now (school). That's the whole point for why public schools exist in the first place because no one would ever have any oppurtunities to advance in society and learn new skills. It would basically create a caste system like we had in the middle ages where people were stuck in thier social roles and careers and thier children followed in thier same exact way and could never become anything else.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Seems quite clear to me that they are trying to suppress the enjoyment of those that go there.

I see you've discovered Christian Fundamentalism. The idea is that if you deprive yourself of any earthly pleasures you will be less likely to be tempted by Satan (or is it Santa? I always get the two mixed up) and you will be closer to God. That's why they don't dance, listen to secular music, or dress in anything that reveals more than their face and hands.

So following your reasoning someone who is as dumb as a brick is just as qualified as a teacher with a degree and years of experience :1orglaugh

Lots of times the two are one and the same.

 

[thebear247]

he did go and got suspended from school

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30669405/?GT1=43001

 

[calpoon]

That's why they don't dance, listen to secular music, or dress in anything that reveals more than their face and hands.

Funny how religious groups in Ohio bear a striking resemblence to ones in Saudi Arabia, isn't it?

 

[Ol-Skool-Perv]

Score +1 for reality. Around here and downtown Indianapolis the kids have already tried so many drugs, had so much sex... the laws might as well be changed. If the teens are fucking, I might as well be joining in and smoking and fucking with them. Fuggin' hell.

It's no longer "If there is grass on the field, play ball"

It is "If there is grass on the field, the field will play with your balls"

Outstanding!

Yeah, the kids are all fucked up (including the ones in their 30s like myself)

I'm all for having a good time, it's all about balance. I failed the balancing act and have sentenced myself to an early passing. And I did all this well after graduation, I can't imagine how the youngsters will fare with the hard stuff coming early on. Hope the kids are alright. :thefinger

I ain't gonna be. :yinyang:

 

[Ol-Skool-Perv]

Like a bunch of religious people and organizations they believe that they are the only ones smart or enlightened enough to know what God wants. They also never seem to have any trouble at all speaking for him or speaking as if they have his authority, even though they sure don't seem to be God.

The "Men of God" seem like frauds to me. Such righteousness is vile in my eyes. We're humans, that's about it, all the rest is meaningless and divisive. Come together, right now,... nope, forever divided and "different".

But I love difference, oh yes I do, it's the "I'm a (insert label)" people who seem to acknowledge that difference is somehow threatening or wrong or lesser-than or whatever.

Evolve! God would be proud.

 

[Facial_King]

he did go and got suspended from school

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30669405/?GT1=43001

Something tells me that:

a) He'll get over it....quickly.
b) The girl was almost certainly worth it.
c) He'll learn more from this experience than he has from most of what was taught to him (if "teaching" is what one wants to call it) at the Christian school.

I only hope his parents have learned something from this, as well...