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Originally Posted by DementedReality
i agree 100%, religion has no place in the public school system.
you might be interested to know though that the schools right now are teaching "moral intelligence". i believe it is the theme every second friday, i will ask my wife as she works in the school.
by the way, i am not religious. however, the reason i support this bill is because I do believe parents should know when these subjects are brought up. not all kids have the same abiliy to compute and apply the subjects into their outside school life. if the parents dont know that little johnny is being taught the birds and the bee's, they arent preparing their children for the lessson.
and if i dont want my son to learn the birds and the bees from a stranger, i should have the right to know its going to be brought up and decide if the child will be in class that day.
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Notification and the right to withdraw your child from education willy-nilly aren't the same thing at all.
I guess what I dispute is the notion that this is a "right" in a fundamental sense at all. Parents don't own their children. Period. Children are human beings who own themselves. Parents have a duty toward their children, not a right to control them or what they learn. As soon as you accept the notion that teaching subject X somehow infringes on the rights of a person who isn't even in the room when it's being taught, you vastly over-complicate the project of a public education, which has a very specific and special purpose. Personally, I don't want parents, some of whom might have an itchy "outrage-trigger," anywhere near that process.