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I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders
    #18861878 - 09/19/13 07:55 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I am very excited about this opportunity and the chance to share what I have learned about the spiritual path with a small group of young souls.

I believe that there is a lot I can teach these kids if I can figure out a way to present the information in such a way that it is absorbable to them. I made many mistakes in my own life that resulted in great suffering, so if I could save just one of these youngsters from going through what I have had to go through, my time will be well spent. The main thing that I want to convey is that our culture has a general misunderstanding of the causes of happiness and trying to obtain happiness without understanding its causes, leads to at best dissatisfaction and at worst unrelenting unbearable suffering.

The main advantage of the church is that it teaches an alternative path to follow in life, an alternative guide to finding happiness that differs considerably from the ideas so prevalent in our culture which associates happiness with wealth, power, prestige, luxury and sensual pleasure, all of which pass away. This was the missing link in my life. I was happy as a child, at peace with myself while out in nature, exploring plants and animals and observing life in all its manifestations. It was only once I absorbed the mindset of my culture, that I became miserable. Jesus Christ came to bare witness to the truth, so that we could learn the truth and the truth could set us free.

So anyway, I am looking for advice on how best to teach these kids. Feel free to post whatever kind of advice you like, whether it be general advice or suggestions on specific things or activities/games to play with the kids in order to make things more fun and interesting for them or ways to keep them engaged.

Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Deviate]
    #18861943 - 09/19/13 08:21 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Deviate said:
Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.




Seriously?? What kind of backward society are we living in?? Religious education should include a variety of different belief systems, and kids should be allowed to discuss their thoughts and ideas on these different concepts and ideas. 

This is just brainwashing - pure and simple.  We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Deviate] * 2
    #18861953 - 09/19/13 08:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Deviate said:
I am very excited about this opportunity and the chance to share what I have learned about the spiritual path with a small group of young souls.

I believe that there is a lot I can teach these kids if I can figure out a way to present the information in such a way that it is absorbable to them. I made many mistakes in my own life that resulted in great suffering, so if I could save just one of these youngsters from going through what I have had to go through, my time will be well spent. The main thing that I want to convey is that our culture has a general misunderstanding of the causes of happiness and trying to obtain happiness without understanding its causes, leads to at best dissatisfaction and at worst unrelenting unbearable suffering.

The main advantage of the church is that it teaches an alternative path to follow in life, an alternative guide to finding happiness that differs considerably from the ideas so prevalent in our culture which associates happiness with wealth, power, prestige, luxury and sensual pleasure, all of which pass away. This was the missing link in my life. I was happy as a child, at peace with myself while out in nature, exploring plants and animals and observing life in all its manifestations. It was only once I absorbed the mindset of my culture, that I became miserable. Jesus Christ came to bare witness to the truth, so that we could learn the truth and the truth could set us free.

So anyway, I am looking for advice on how best to teach these kids. Feel free to post whatever kind of advice you like, whether it be general advice or suggestions on specific things or activities/games to play with the kids in order to make things more fun and interesting for them or ways to keep them engaged.

Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.



:curbyourenthusiasm: hopefully some of the kids will know better than to believe anything coming out of your mouth.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: PocketLady]
    #18861992 - 09/19/13 08:41 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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PocketLady said:
We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.




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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: PocketLady]
    #18861994 - 09/19/13 08:43 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.




and I didn't even see a logic course listing until university.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Old Pokey]
    #18862067 - 09/19/13 09:09 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

A course in logic is not necessary.  Just teachers who encourage real thought.


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The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Kinko]
    #18862120 - 09/19/13 09:20 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Kinko said:
Quote:

Deviate said:
I am very excited about this opportunity and the chance to share what I have learned about the spiritual path with a small group of young souls.

I believe that there is a lot I can teach these kids if I can figure out a way to present the information in such a way that it is absorbable to them. I made many mistakes in my own life that resulted in great suffering, so if I could save just one of these youngsters from going through what I have had to go through, my time will be well spent. The main thing that I want to convey is that our culture has a general misunderstanding of the causes of happiness and trying to obtain happiness without understanding its causes, leads to at best dissatisfaction and at worst unrelenting unbearable suffering.

The main advantage of the church is that it teaches an alternative path to follow in life, an alternative guide to finding happiness that differs considerably from the ideas so prevalent in our culture which associates happiness with wealth, power, prestige, luxury and sensual pleasure, all of which pass away. This was the missing link in my life. I was happy as a child, at peace with myself while out in nature, exploring plants and animals and observing life in all its manifestations. It was only once I absorbed the mindset of my culture, that I became miserable. Jesus Christ came to bare witness to the truth, so that we could learn the truth and the truth could set us free.

So anyway, I am looking for advice on how best to teach these kids. Feel free to post whatever kind of advice you like, whether it be general advice or suggestions on specific things or activities/games to play with the kids in order to make things more fun and interesting for them or ways to keep them engaged.

Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.



:curbyourenthusiasm: hopefully some of the kids will know better than to believe anything coming out of your mouth.




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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Deviate]
    #18862763 - 09/19/13 12:06 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

PocketLady said:
Quote:

Deviate said:
Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.




Seriously?? What kind of backward society are we living in?? Religious education should include a variety of different belief systems, and kids should be allowed to discuss their thoughts and ideas on these different concepts and ideas. 

This is just brainwashing - pure and simple.  We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.





Is this Ontario, deviate?


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: PocketLady]
    #18862824 - 09/19/13 12:21 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Obviously, the kids are Catholic kids, in Catholic school. My wife questioned the nuns and she was told that certain things must simply be believed. That did not satisfy her, but it was her choice to take intellectual leave of catechism classes. You cannot apply free-thinking to a parochial education. The parents of those students would not have placed their kids in a parochial school unless they wanted them to become Catholics, and it is not the role of a teacher in such a situation to interfere with that process. The level that you are talking about is college. Public schools are not the venue for that kind of discussion either. I just retired from 27 years as a crisis intervention specialist in the 4th largest school system in the country, and the only time I engaged kids on religion, was around the issue of death and dying. I stayed within each kids own religious framework if there was one, and never came under any fire from angry parents. But a friend of mine simply had a Buddhist text on his desk. One of his students inquired about the image of the meditating Buddha on the cover. He did not elaborate, he only said it was about the Buddhist religion. The next morning he was called to the principal's office to answer to some moronic parent about how religion was solely their province. It was fucked up. He didn't teach or preach anything! If you work with kids, it is imperative to know the ground rules if one plans on remaining at that post.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Old Pokey]
    #18862838 - 09/19/13 12:25 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Old Pokey said:
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We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.




and I didn't even see a logic course listing until university.




Algebra 1 is supposed to determine if a child has attained to Formal Operational Thinking, according to the developmental scheme of Jean Piaget. Formal Operations entails logical processes. The huge school system I was employed in did focus on critical thinking skills, which were incorporated into all curriculum areas, but nobody is gonna teach Boolian algebra til college.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Deviate]
    #18862902 - 09/19/13 12:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Deviate said:
I am very excited about this opportunity and the chance to share what I have learned about the spiritual path with a small group of young souls.

I believe that there is a lot I can teach these kids if I can figure out a way to present the information in such a way that it is absorbable to them. I made many mistakes in my own life that resulted in great suffering, so if I could save just one of these youngsters from going through what I have had to go through, my time will be well spent. The main thing that I want to convey is that our culture has a general misunderstanding of the causes of happiness and trying to obtain happiness without understanding its causes, leads to at best dissatisfaction and at worst unrelenting unbearable suffering.

The main advantage of the church is that it teaches an alternative path to follow in life, an alternative guide to finding happiness that differs considerably from the ideas so prevalent in our culture which associates happiness with wealth, power, prestige, luxury and sensual pleasure, all of which pass away. This was the missing link in my life. I was happy as a child, at peace with myself while out in nature, exploring plants and animals and observing life in all its manifestations. It was only once I absorbed the mindset of my culture, that I became miserable. Jesus Christ came to bare witness to the truth, so that we could learn the truth and the truth could set us free.

So anyway, I am looking for advice on how best to teach these kids. Feel free to post whatever kind of advice you like, whether it be general advice or suggestions on specific things or activities/games to play with the kids in order to make things more fun and interesting for them or ways to keep them engaged.

Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.





No offense but I feel sorry for them.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: PocketLady]
    #18862949 - 09/19/13 12:53 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

PocketLady said:
Quote:

Deviate said:
Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.




Seriously?? What kind of backward society are we living in?? Religious education should include a variety of different belief systems, and kids should be allowed to discuss their thoughts and ideas on these different concepts and ideas. 

This is just brainwashing - pure and simple.  We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.




I live in the midwest.... I am agnostic.... I had a close friend and their mother told them that I had to become a christian and go to church to be friends.... I did not do that, I banged her, and now she's an atheist.... I must have been a bad apple...

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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #18863263 - 09/19/13 02:14 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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MarkostheGnostic said:
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Old Pokey said:
Quote:

We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.




and I didn't even see a logic course listing until university.




Algebra 1 is supposed to determine if a child has attained to Formal Operational Thinking, according to the developmental scheme of Jean Piaget. Formal Operations entails logical processes. The huge school system I was employed in did focus on critical thinking skills, which were incorporated into all curriculum areas, but nobody is gonna teach Boolian algebra til college.




None of my 3 algebra teachers in public school ever emphasized application of this mathematical scheme to critical thinking. 

Syllogistic logic should be taught right along side 2 + 2.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: PocketLady]
    #18863371 - 09/19/13 02:48 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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PocketLady said:
Quote:

Deviate said:
Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.




Seriously?? What kind of backward society are we living in?? Religious education should include a variety of different belief systems, and kids should be allowed to discuss their thoughts and ideas on these different concepts and ideas. 

This is just brainwashing - pure and simple.  We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.





It's religious education for catholic kids, obviously, not a class on religion.

You can say it's brainwashing but that is realy just your opinion. You are aware that the entire public school education process could be considered brainwashing. I fail to see how this is different. Regardless of what I do, these children are going to grow up with the values and belief systems passed onto them by their parents, teachers, relatives and society at large. That's just the way it is. Thats why I like psychedelics, I think they help faciliate culteral detox.

The value I see in teaching religion is that it gives me the oppurtinity to instill in these kids a better value system than the values they would pick up were they to grow up on MTV and uh, whatever is popular among youth culture these days. I am going to try to teach them to value righteousness and virtue, kindness and compassion, generosity and forgiveness and fairness and equality instead of success, money, prestige and pleasure which is what our society values. If you think this is a bad thing, I am afraid our value systems are opposite each other.

Anyway, I made this post to give YOU folks the opportunity to give YOUR OWN input on what I can teach these kids to hopefully better their lives and so far none of you have given me any suggestions. So its a bit hypocritical to criticize me when you  haven't given a single suggestion on how I could teach these children to think critically, or whatever it is you think they should be learning.

Remember, they would be in REL ED regardless of whether I was their teacher and I am probably the only teacher actually willing to listen to and consider the opinions of non catholics in forming my lesson plans.


Edited by Deviate (09/19/13 02:52 PM)


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: eve69]
    #18863388 - 09/19/13 02:56 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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eve69 said:
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Deviate said:
I am very excited about this opportunity and the chance to share what I have learned about the spiritual path with a small group of young souls.

I believe that there is a lot I can teach these kids if I can figure out a way to present the information in such a way that it is absorbable to them. I made many mistakes in my own life that resulted in great suffering, so if I could save just one of these youngsters from going through what I have had to go through, my time will be well spent. The main thing that I want to convey is that our culture has a general misunderstanding of the causes of happiness and trying to obtain happiness without understanding its causes, leads to at best dissatisfaction and at worst unrelenting unbearable suffering.

The main advantage of the church is that it teaches an alternative path to follow in life, an alternative guide to finding happiness that differs considerably from the ideas so prevalent in our culture which associates happiness with wealth, power, prestige, luxury and sensual pleasure, all of which pass away. This was the missing link in my life. I was happy as a child, at peace with myself while out in nature, exploring plants and animals and observing life in all its manifestations. It was only once I absorbed the mindset of my culture, that I became miserable. Jesus Christ came to bare witness to the truth, so that we could learn the truth and the truth could set us free.

So anyway, I am looking for advice on how best to teach these kids. Feel free to post whatever kind of advice you like, whether it be general advice or suggestions on specific things or activities/games to play with the kids in order to make things more fun and interesting for them or ways to keep them engaged.

Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.





No offense but I feel sorry for them.





Why? Because they are in religious education or because I am their teacher? If the latter, I question why you think they would be better off with someone else, who would probably be a lot less likely to be willing to even listen to the opinions of non catholics not to mention the fact that you barely know me and have no means by which to judge my teaching ability.

Therefore, it seems to me that although you attempted to disguise your intent with the phrase "no offense" your comment was meant to do nothing other than to offend.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Deviate]
    #18863652 - 09/19/13 04:13 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Dont be real offended, its just that you can do as much good helping Catholic brainwashed kids as you can helping drug addicts by becoming a DEA officer.

I think you could help shape perceptions by giving multiple perspectives of the same limited dogma, but I wouldnt think that its a job worth doing.


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #18863654 - 09/19/13 04:14 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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MarkostheGnostic said:
Obviously, the kids are Catholic kids, in Catholic school. My wife questioned the nuns and she was told that certain things must simply be believed. That did not satisfy her, but it was her choice to take intellectual leave of catechism classes. You cannot apply free-thinking to a parochial education. The parents of those students would not have placed their kids in a parochial school unless they wanted them to become Catholics, and it is not the role of a teacher in such a situation to interfere with that process. The level that you are talking about is college. Public schools are not the venue for that kind of discussion either. I just retired from 27 years as a crisis intervention specialist in the 4th largest school system in the country, and the only time I engaged kids on religion, was around the issue of death and dying. I stayed within each kids own religious framework if there was one, and never came under any fire from angry parents. But a friend of mine simply had a Buddhist text on his desk. One of his students inquired about the image of the meditating Buddha on the cover. He did not elaborate, he only said it was about the Buddhist religion. The next morning he was called to the principal's office to answer to some moronic parent about how religion was solely their province. It was fucked up. He didn't teach or preach anything! If you work with kids, it is imperative to know the ground rules if one plans on remaining at that post.




It's absolute madness, and it seems the ground rules vary massively depending on the educational establishment.  The situation in non-denominational schools in the UK is that the teacher should refrain from imposing their own religious and political views on students.


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The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Deviate]
    #18863682 - 09/19/13 04:19 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Deviate said:
Quote:

PocketLady said:
Quote:

Deviate said:
Bare in mind that I am not allowed to teach them anything contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.




Seriously?? What kind of backward society are we living in?? Religious education should include a variety of different belief systems, and kids should be allowed to discuss their thoughts and ideas on these different concepts and ideas. 

This is just brainwashing - pure and simple.  We shouldn't be teaching kids what to think, but HOW to think, so they can make rational and informed decisions.





It's religious education for catholic kids, obviously, not a class on religion.

You can say it's brainwashing but that is realy just your opinion. You are aware that the entire public school education process could be considered brainwashing. I fail to see how this is different. Regardless of what I do, these children are going to grow up with the values and belief systems passed onto them by their parents, teachers, relatives and society at large. That's just the way it is. Thats why I like psychedelics, I think they help faciliate culteral detox.

The value I see in teaching religion is that it gives me the oppurtinity to instill in these kids a better value system than the values they would pick up were they to grow up on MTV and uh, whatever is popular among youth culture these days. I am going to try to teach them to value righteousness and virtue, kindness and compassion, generosity and forgiveness and fairness and equality instead of success, money, prestige and pleasure which is what our society values. If you think this is a bad thing, I am afraid our value systems are opposite each other.

Anyway, I made this post to give YOU folks the opportunity to give YOUR OWN input on what I can teach these kids to hopefully better their lives and so far none of you have given me any suggestions. So its a bit hypocritical to criticize me when you  haven't given a single suggestion on how I could teach these children to think critically, or whatever it is you think they should be learning.

Remember, they would be in REL ED regardless of whether I was their teacher and I am probably the only teacher actually willing to listen to and consider the opinions of non catholics in forming my lesson plans.




I'm not having a go at you Deviate, just the crazy system whereby kids are brought up only hearing one side of the system.  I agree with 90% of Christian values.  I just don't agree with the hypocrisy of the incredibly wealthy and powerful Catholic Church, or that there is anything good out there that actually wants worshipping.


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Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

~ Rumi



The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny.
~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: PocketLady]
    #18863759 - 09/19/13 04:35 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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PocketLady said:
Quote:

MarkostheGnostic said:
Obviously, the kids are Catholic kids, in Catholic school. My wife questioned the nuns and she was told that certain things must simply be believed. That did not satisfy her, but it was her choice to take intellectual leave of catechism classes. You cannot apply free-thinking to a parochial education. The parents of those students would not have placed their kids in a parochial school unless they wanted them to become Catholics, and it is not the role of a teacher in such a situation to interfere with that process. The level that you are talking about is college. Public schools are not the venue for that kind of discussion either. I just retired from 27 years as a crisis intervention specialist in the 4th largest school system in the country, and the only time I engaged kids on religion, was around the issue of death and dying. I stayed within each kids own religious framework if there was one, and never came under any fire from angry parents. But a friend of mine simply had a Buddhist text on his desk. One of his students inquired about the image of the meditating Buddha on the cover. He did not elaborate, he only said it was about the Buddhist religion. The next morning he was called to the principal's office to answer to some moronic parent about how religion was solely their province. It was fucked up. He didn't teach or preach anything! If you work with kids, it is imperative to know the ground rules if one plans on remaining at that post.




It's absolute madness, and it seems the ground rules vary massively depending on the educational establishment.  The situation in non-denominational schools in the UK is that the teacher should refrain from imposing their own religious and political views on students.




America is much different, in the midwest of America there is a thing called bible study that exists in public schooling of all kinds until highschool. A trailer parks outside your school and you have to sign a paper saying that you want to go attend bible study or else you are stuck in the library doing shit busy work and in my case I got scolded by my teacher until I got my parent signature.

Why, might you euros ask, is bible study allowed and heavily encouraged in a PUBLIC school system? Well let me explain. The trailer is outside the building, so technically its not your school teaching you christianity, no, even though its during SCHOOL HOURS, and on SCHOOL PROPERTY....

Welcome to 'Murica


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Re: I volunteered to teach religious education to fifth graders [Re: Yogi1]
    #18863897 - 09/19/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Nice, Deviate!

I don't have any ideas for games or activities.  If you speak from the heart, and your message will resonate with the students.

Peace!


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