Religion classes in school - Megathread
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Tyler Ruiz502 said:Some folks are getting seriously worked up about how religious dogma is being forced into our schools and hospitals—basically shoved into every public space—and how people are trying to blur the lines between national identity and religious affiliation. I won't even get started on the whole "divine right" nonsense.
Mixing church and state, all that stuff.
I probably don't even need to spell out why this makes everyone’s skin crawl. Honestly, it makes my hair stand on end too.
But anyway, moving away from that... when we talk about the issues with school textbooks, there was something else that really rubbed me the wrong way. I grew up on the coast in California, you know? And yet, those textbooks completely ignored us. It felt like they were written for some other group of kids living somewhere else entirely. They constantly played up this binary between rural life and city life, but my reality didn't fit into either box. According to the books, every field trip involved hiking to some lake or stream, which I had never seen in my life. In the summer, obviously, we go to the beach. Back in first grade, I wasn't even sure what they meant by certain descriptions; I actually thought they were talking about the local town square when they mentioned the "coast."
From the time I was little, you could just tell—these things weren't written for everyone. They weren't written for us.
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A relative of mine, who is still attending elementary school, told me yesterday that their teacher asked the class what they thought about Trump. When the whole room spoke up and said he was terrible, the teacher decided to spend the rest of the period explaining why he is actually great, especially when it comes to issues involving Muslims.🙄
Tyler Ruiz502 said:Some folks are getting seriously worked up about how religious dogma is being forced into our schools and hospitals—basically shoved into every public space—and how people are trying to blur the lines between national identity and religious affiliation. I won't even get started on the whole "divine right" nonsense.
Mixing church and state, all that stuff.
I probably don't even need to spell out why this makes everyone’s skin crawl. Honestly, it makes my hair stand on end too.
But anyway, moving away from that... when we talk about the issues with school textbooks, there was something else that really rubbed me the wrong way. I grew up on the coast in California, you know? And yet, those textbooks completely ignored us. It felt like they were written for some other group of kids living somewhere else entirely. They constantly played up this binary between rural life and city life, but my reality didn't fit into either box. According to the books, every field trip involved hiking to some lake or stream, which I had never seen in my life. In the summer, obviously, we go to the beach. Back in first grade, I wasn't even sure what they meant by certain descriptions; I actually thought they were talking about the local town square when they mentioned the "coast."
From the time I was little, you could just tell—these things weren't written for everyone. They weren't written for us.
😬
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I have heard this from so many, so many different people. Even people complain about cartoons because, if a character happens to have a certain regional accent, they are always portrayed as the villain. Of course, I didn't notice these things when I was a child, and since I haven't dealt with modern textbooks or cartoons lately, I can't speak from direct experience, but don't you think that if so many people are noticing it, there must be something to it? There really shouldn't be.