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Originally Posted by Orange
I'd say it's far more likely that the parent is getting upset over 'minor' things
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Far more likely based on what, exactly?
And what's likely isn't really relevant, what's actually happening is. The devil is in the details.
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Originally Posted by Orange
like an Our Father to start the day, a couple school assemblies mimicking church, praying for someone in a bad situation and then when the kids get in fights or act up the teacher may bring up Jesus' "Love one another" quote which every major religion has a variant of (for a reason). There may be a couple of times a student asks a question that brings up religion, especially Genesis and Adam and Eve during science class, but I highly doubt that anywhere in the science curriculum is there any relgious overtones especially since the Catholic church believes in evolution and doesn't take the Book of Genesis literal.
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It's that pervasiveness of religion that's probably the issue, not teaching creationism in science (we can drop the whole adam/eve/science thread of discussion, I completely agree that any catholic schools that teach against evolution in science will be completely against the norm).
Again the devil is in the details, but being brought up religious myself I can say there are very basic patterns of thinking and learning which I think may be encouraged in a religious setting that I think are disadvantageous to a person. If this school promotes those patterns (and it may, again details are necessary), then I still agree with their point.
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Originally Posted by bcb
Science Teachers? What science teachers?. The kid in question was in Kindergarten.
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There are more parents and schools from k-12. As I said no need to focus on science or creationism as that's likely not the issue here since catholic schools don't teach it.