For my Composition and Rhetoric class, I gave a presentation about how people turn to The Bible for justification for certain beliefs. I talked a lot about how people will say that The Bible is law and will use it to justify their prejudices towards gay people, yet they disregard what The Bible says about divorce, working on Sunday, and women being on their period. Anyways, I digress.
Over Thanksgiving my Aunt, who is a teacher, was telling us about her one coworker to always says "God bless" to her students as they leave the classroom. My cousins and I were talking about our thoughts on this. As we all know, religion is not supposed to be brought into the classroom in a public school. I think this teacher is out of place for saying this. I think it is a kind gesture, but an inappropriate setting. I know that as a student, and as a person who is not overly religious, I would not like this teacher's actions. Am I over-reacting? Am I justified? What do you guys think, future educators?
As future educators I definitely think it's important that we don't bring inappropriate topics into the classroom. Although this teacher's gesture is a slight and doesn't intentionally throw her views in anyone's face, it's interesting to think how the school might choose to handle the situation if someone complained about it.
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