Okay, I'm coming from this as a non-Christian parent, and this<br>
*really* rankles me.<br><br>
Ethan came home from school with two Thanksgiving projects. One was<br>
a construction paper story book in which he cut and pasted typed<br>
paragraphs from a worksheet.<br><br>
These were the parts that bother me:<br><br>
On the first page:<br>
"The Pilgrims were people who lived in England a long time ago.<br>
They loved God and they wanted to worship Him in their own way."<br>
(Capitalization theirs, not mine.)<br><br>
and on the last page :<br>
"The Pilgrims wanted to have a big feast to thank God for taking<br>
care of them. They invited their Indian friends and had a special<br>
day of Thanksgiving. Today, in the United States, we still celebrate<br>
this day to thank God for the good things we have."<br><br>
This sounds much more like a Sunday School lesson, which has no<br>
place in a public school classroom. I am seeing red..<br><br>
Also, he came home with a turkey and on each tail feather he wrote<br>
something he was thankful for. On the first feather was the<br>
word "god". He did *not* get that from home, and he sure as hell did<br>
not need to get that from school.<br><br>
I am so pissed right now..I am wanting to either yank him from his<br>
classroom or yank him from school altogether. Another Pagan couple I<br>
know whose son is in the same grade are fuming about this too.<br><br>
What would you think if your child came home with something like<br>
this? I don't wanna fly off the handle here but this really, really<br>
bothers me. What about the other children in the classroom who are not Christian?<br>
Erica
*really* rankles me.<br><br>
Ethan came home from school with two Thanksgiving projects. One was<br>
a construction paper story book in which he cut and pasted typed<br>
paragraphs from a worksheet.<br><br>
These were the parts that bother me:<br><br>
On the first page:<br>
"The Pilgrims were people who lived in England a long time ago.<br>
They loved God and they wanted to worship Him in their own way."<br>
(Capitalization theirs, not mine.)<br><br>
and on the last page :<br>
"The Pilgrims wanted to have a big feast to thank God for taking<br>
care of them. They invited their Indian friends and had a special<br>
day of Thanksgiving. Today, in the United States, we still celebrate<br>
this day to thank God for the good things we have."<br><br>
This sounds much more like a Sunday School lesson, which has no<br>
place in a public school classroom. I am seeing red..<br><br>
Also, he came home with a turkey and on each tail feather he wrote<br>
something he was thankful for. On the first feather was the<br>
word "god". He did *not* get that from home, and he sure as hell did<br>
not need to get that from school.<br><br>
I am so pissed right now..I am wanting to either yank him from his<br>
classroom or yank him from school altogether. Another Pagan couple I<br>
know whose son is in the same grade are fuming about this too.<br><br>
What would you think if your child came home with something like<br>
this? I don't wanna fly off the handle here but this really, really<br>
bothers me. What about the other children in the classroom who are not Christian?<br>
Erica