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Title: Student: Teacher taught 'God is not real'
Source: USA Today NetworkJosh Chapin, KHOU-TV, Houston
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... -taught-god-not-real/74727730/
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Author: NetworkJosh Chapin
Post Date: 2015-10-29 10:47:25 by Don
Keywords: None
Views: 5151
Comments: 32

KATY, Texas — A seventh-grade assignment in a Texas school district asked students to deny the existence of God, a student said.

The Katy Independent School District has since apologized and the principal of West Memorial Junior High School determined the assignment wasn't necessary for students.

But the assignment still didn't sit well with one student.

Jordan Wooley said she answered the question "there is a God" in two ways.

"I said it was fact or opinion," she said, adding she answered that way because "based on my religion and based on what I think and believe, I do not think it was a common place assertion."

Jordan said her reading teacher said both her answers were wrong and that she had to admit God wasn't real.

"It was really confusing to me at first because I didn't really know what to do, so the first thing I did was tell my mom," Jordan said.

Her mom, Chantel Wooley, couldn't believe it.

"That a kid was literally graded against her faith in God in a classroom," said Wooley who questioned who would want that to be known.

Jordan testified at the Katy school district's Board of Education meeting Monday night.

"Today I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith," Jordan said at the meeting.

"So the kids were caught in a Catch-22," Wooley said. "If they argued their faith, they were being told they were arguing against their faith and that happened in the classroom."

On Tuesday, the school district released a statement saying, in part, that the assignment was intended to encourage critical thinking and dialogue and not question any students' religious beliefs.

"Still this does not excuse the fact that this ungraded activity was ill-conceived and because of that, its intent had been misconstrued," the district said in its statement.

Wooley could understand the assignment if it were given in college.

"Are we talking about impressionable 12- or 13-year-olds or are we talking about 24-year-olds in college who already have a firm grasp of the world around them?" she asked.

"I love reading so for me personally to have to fail reading because of what my beliefs are just shocked me," Jordan said.

Jordan said the assignment was in fact graded, so she would have had to contradict her faith in order to pass.

The school district said the teacher who came up with the assignment is distraught and that it's crucial not to vilify the teacher without knowing her and her Christian faith.

The teacher did not respond to requests for comment outside her home.

Katy is about 30 miles west of Houston. According to the school district's website, there are more than 70,000 students attending schools in the district.

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#1. To: Don (#0)

Is the Creator more likely to render His self-evidence in the lives of those who seek Him - or - through the state-established, fallible and uninspired, curricular Created Things concocted by those who covet to BE, Him?

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   10:54:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: VxH (#1)

What is your point?

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-29   10:57:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Don (#2) (Edited)

Can't answer the question?

Alas poor Nebuchadnezzar and his fellow Babylonian fallen stars.

http://www.apocalypse angel.com/morningstar.html

Numbers 16

 

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   10:59:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: VxH (#1)

Willie Green  posted on  2015-10-29   11:01:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Willie Green (#4)

Steven Hawking is his own, bitter, god. And an asshole.

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:04:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Don (#0)

"EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE. 
THIS IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE STATE TO EFFECT AND ON A GENERAL PLAN"
--
Thomas Jefferson




VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:09:35 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: VxH (#3)

Obviously not since I require clarification.

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-29   11:11:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: VxH (#6)

Do you think the teacher is wrong or the student?

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-29   11:13:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Don (#0) (Edited)

Katy is about 30 miles west of Houston. According to the school district's website

Maybe the District should include discussion of the "common place assertions" that led the super geniuses in Texas in their effort to unexist Thomas Jefferson from their curriculum on enlightenment?

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:14:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Don (#8) (Edited)

When has the religious state-establishment ever been right?

Numbers 16

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:15:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: VxH (#9)

Let me see if I can answer your question. The teacher is teaching her students that God doesn't exist, which is an indicator of how this nation is going down the tubes. Many say the teaching of the existence of God is wrong in our public schools, yet we have teachers who teach God doesn't exist. There is hypocrisy galore here.

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-29   11:19:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: VxH (#10) (Edited)

In ancient Israel is an example of how and when it is right.

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-29   11:20:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Don (#12) (Edited)

In ancient Israel is an example of how and when it is right.

Num 12:9

9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them. NIV

That "ancient Israel"?

Numbers 16

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:27:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: VxH (#13)

Could you please get someone there to explain what in the world you are talking about?

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-29   11:32:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Don (#14)

Num 12:9 9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them. NIV

THAT Ancient Israel?

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:34:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Don (#14) (Edited)

How many times exactly did the Zionistas get subjugated by their enemies in response to their idolatrous worship of their State-establishment, anyhow?

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:38:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Don (#14)

what in the world you are talking about?

Exactly!

VxH  posted on  2015-10-29   11:43:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Don (#0)

This happened in Katy Texas. That school board, principal and teacher are toast.

The idiots didn't see the movie "God's NOT Dead?"

The kid should have used that book and movie for her book report.

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   1:54:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Don (#0)

On Tuesday, the school district released a statement saying, in part, that the assignment was intended to encourage critical thinking and dialogue and not question any students' religious beliefs.

Maybe they should have picked the junk science of climate change or evolution for their critical thinking assignment.

Loads to write about there reference chance and blind faith.

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   1:57:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: VxH, Don (#1)

Is the Creator more likely to render His self-evidence in the lives of those who seek Him - or - through the state-established, fallible and uninspired, curricular Created Things concocted by those who covet to BE, Him?

The rub is the teacher claims to be a Christian.

But yes...those who seek God will find Him.

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   2:03:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Willie Green (#4)

How does Hawking explain his wheelchair?

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   2:04:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: VxH (#6)

I never asked...is that you in the raincoat?

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   2:06:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: redleghunter (#21)

How does Hawking explain his wheelchair?

Evolution, I suppose.... the Bible doesn't say anything about "And on the eighth day, God created wheelchairs" you know.

Willie Green  posted on  2015-10-30   7:39:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Willie Green (#23)

Yes but his wheelchair had a creator. Or does he think it just happened by chance?

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   9:51:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: redleghunter (#24)

Yes but his wheelchair had a creator. Or does he think it just happened by chance?

He attributes the creation to Intel® Corporation,
although the chair itself is a Pride powerchair
(but I don't know the exact model)

Willie Green  posted on  2015-10-30   10:37:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: redleghunter (#20) (Edited)

The rub is...

"District officials [said] that the 12-year-old girl's story is not the same one that other students told officials. They also say that the other students claim this reading teacher did not say there was not a God during an assignment in class. The district said they interviewed eight of the 22 students who were in that same classroom."
www.snopes.com/2015/10/28...d-assignment-controversy/

ooops!

VxH  posted on  2015-10-30   11:04:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: redleghunter (#22) (Edited)

is that you in the raincoat?

Nope. That was me behind the lens at the 912 Tea Party.

I'd never given Jefferson much thought before reading his ideas that day -- thanks to whoever preserved them in stone -- in the memorial bearing his name.

I guess they figured it'd be a little harder for "FALLIBLE AND UNINSPIRED" curricular historical revisionists to unexist such notions that way.

VxH  posted on  2015-10-30   11:07:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: All (#13) (Edited)

Num 12:9 9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them. NIV

THAT Ancient Israel?

And all the Zionistas said...

{ crickets crickets crickets }

VxH  posted on  2015-10-30   11:13:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: VxH (#26)

District officials [said] that the 12-year-old girl's story is not the same one that other students told officials. They also say that the other students claim this reading teacher did not say there was not a God during an assignment in class. The district said they interviewed eight of the 22 students who were in that same classroom." www.snopes.com/2015/10/28...d-assignment-controversy/

Good find. I did see in the posted article that the teacher professed to be a Christian.

Either way, such an apologetics exercise in a reading class is odd.

I do know in theology courses students are assigned to take opposing views to gain a better understanding of the opposition. But that is different from having middle school kids do the same.

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   11:17:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: redleghunter (#29)

such an apologetics exercise in a reading class is odd.

I get the impression the intent was to teach critical reading skills.

"ALMIGHTY GOD HATH CREATED THE MIND FREE".

Is that an observable fact, a common place assertion, or _________?

VxH  posted on  2015-10-30   11:21:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: VxH (#30)

Now that is a good reading assignment.

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-10-30   11:32:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: redleghunter (#31)

Yep.

VxH  posted on  2015-10-30   11:37:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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