Obama vs. God in Texas classrooms
Today at noon EST, President Barack Obama delivered a speech to kids in a classroom in Arlington, Virginia. The speech was broadcast live by C-Span and most kids around the country watched it. It’s a special moment to have the leader of your country speak directly to you when you’re six years old, but many students in Texas didn’t have the pleasure to chill with the prez today:
A groundswell of parent opposition to President Obama’s speech next Tuesday to students on the importance of education has forced many North Texas school districts to decide against airing it live in classrooms.
via Texas parents oppose airing of Obama speech | Nation & World | Wichita Eagle.
So Obama’s not allowed in the classroom. You know what is allowed in the classroom? Bibles.
Strangely enough, those same North Texas schools shunning the U.S. president are grappling today with state-mandated Bible literary classes:
Some northern Texas school districts are scrambling to interpret a state law that requires public schools to incorporate Bible literacy into the curriculum.
The Legislature provided little guidance, no funding for materials or teacher training when it passed the law in 2007 requiring Bible literacy to be taught starting in the 2009-2010 school year.
Attorney General Greg Abbott has said the law doesn’t require schools to offer a Bible course, although they can offer it as an elective. However, they must provide some sort of lessons, he said.
via Bible literacy law stumps schools | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
So the big guy in D.C. is not allowed in the classroom, but the Big Guy Upstairs is required to be there. That’s quite a confusing lesson for school kids on the separation of church and state.
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It is not just the Lone Star state giving God the lines and Obama a walk-on a role. Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma – to name a few have such a preponderance of Christian-Right that the option to hear the President will be limited. My schoolteacher family in California will be turning to C-Span at 9AM. My daughter teaches kindergarten so I’m not sure about her.are As I wrote in a comment last night – my wife teaches a special ed class at a continuation school. The kids are challenged more from toxic environments – fathers in jail, language difficulties, poverty, juvenile records, etc. – than physical or mental handicaps. Lucky them – a strong man who is African-American speaking to them about what they can accomplish, what they can for themselves – and he is the President of the United states. Tom Medlicott
Kashmir:
I’ll add a link to something I just put up that’s related to your story.
http://trueslant.com/bobcook/2009/09/08/parent-ticked-that-high-school-football-coach-gave-players-a-holy-water-break/
In Kentucky, where the state superintendent was the first to mandate parental permission to watch the Obama speech, a coach, with his local superintendent’s blessing (no pun intended), took members of his football team to church WITHOUT parental permission to get them baptized. The superintendent is a member of the same church, by the way.
Remember when the vast liberal media used to dismiss these minorities as hicks…ahh the good old days.
[...] now in addition to Bible studies, Phyllis Schlafly studies, and creationism studies, Texas youngsters are now getting a regimen of [...]
I hate Texas.