After being interviewed by the school administration, the prospective teacher said: "Let me see if I've got this right".

You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages and instill in them a love for learning.

You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self-esteem and personal pride.

You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a check book, and apply for a job.

You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and ensure that they all pass their final exams.

You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicap and communicate regularly with their parents in English, Arabic or any other language, by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card

You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for "New Start."

You want me to do all this, and then you tell me......

I CAN'T wear a necklace with a little cross, mention God, or say "Merry Christmas" because someone might take offense? "

Well, you know what you can do with your job........

This should be posted in every school in America and all countries.

Think about it!

If Muslims can pray anywhere, why are Christians banned from praying in public and from erecting religious displays on their holy days?

What happened to our National Day of Prayer?

Muslims are allowed to block off major streets, in all American States and pray in the middle of the street! And it's a monthly ritual!

Tell me, again, whose country is this

Ours or the Muslims?

I was asked to send this on if I agree, or delete if I don't.

It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having 'God' in our education system or the Lord's Prayer said in our government, schools or public meetings.

I believe it's time we stand up for what we believe!

Support America.....

You're an angry little fella ain't'cha? ...really eager to play victim too.... Imagine, being told not to wear a cross or to mention God, or to say Merry Christmas... Oh, you already are - LOL!

The 1st amendment gives you the right to do any of those things so stop acting like Billy hit you. You just don't like that the schools are not permitting people to shove YOUR specific brand of religion down everyone's throat. That's what this whole thing has always been about. Evangelists have always tried to use public schools to push for a Christian-dominant culture, sometimes to the point of religious denial (of other religions), which accgording to the U.S. Constitution, the government is not allowed to support. So when schools comply, evangelists get all pissed off and they start preaching about how the schools are destroying America.

America isn't being destroyed - it's just growing and changing. Maybe the clean, happy days of soda fountains and white privilege are behind us... like plastic army men and Santa Clause.

Seems like I feel the need to retort this poster about once per week. Our country is based on the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y. If 86% of the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y want to hear a prayer at a ball game( plus another 10% who don't believe but have no problem with those who do) then why can't the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y do so? Or have a morning prayer in school? Because prayer is like smoking...not in any public building...only in designated areas.....better yet, just keep it to yourself.
The M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y(meaning the largest (biggest) number of people) are restricted from prayer by the M-I-N-O-R-I-T-Y ( the smallest ( itsi bitsi) number pf people). Also, YOU are foisting YOUR belief that those like you should be able to discuss and belittle the beliefs of the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y because you believe that you are too smart to believe in God. (Both are a belief system.) The only difference is that one is doomed to fail, and it ain't gonna be mine !!!

Seems like I feel the need to retort this poster about once per week. Our country is based on the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y. If 86% of the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y want to hear a prayer at a ball game( plus another 10% who don't believe but have no problem with those who do) then why can't the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y do so? Or have a morning prayer in school? Because prayer is like smoking...not in any public building...only in designated areas.....better yet, just keep it to yourself.
The M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y(meaning the largest (biggest) number of people) are restricted from prayer by the M-I-N-O-R-I-T-Y ( the smallest ( itsi bitsi) number pf people). Also, YOU are foisting YOUR belief that those like you should be able to discuss and belittle the beliefs of the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y because you believe that you are too smart to believe in God. (Both are a belief system.) The only difference is that one is doomed to fail, and it ain't gonna be mine !!!

Seems like I feel the need to retort this poster about once per week. Our country is based on the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y. If 86% of the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y want to hear a prayer at a ball game( plus another 10% who don't believe but have no problem with those who do) then why can't the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y do so? Or have a morning prayer in school? Because prayer is like smoking...not in any public building...only in designated areas.....better yet, just keep it to yourself.
The M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y(meaning the largest (biggest) number of people) are restricted from prayer by the M-I-N-O-R-I-T-Y ( the smallest ( itsi bitsi) number pf people). Also, YOU are foisting YOUR belief that those like you should be able to discuss and belittle the beliefs of the M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y because you believe that you are too smart to believe in God. (Both are a belief system.) The only difference is that one is doomed to fail, and it ain't gonna be mine !!!

Well the debate falls apart for one simple fact: Christ was a teacher! So you won the argument. Congratulations!

On another valid note, I was researching Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle and found that thier conclusions were made whole when you include the teachings of Christ. Now if you were to eliminate the hostility of the nature of Mohammed in his teachings, the only conclusion is Christ's teaching which brings all religions together. Christ's teachings fulfill the Jewish teachings of the patriarchs, the heros, the judges and prophets of Israel as well as the Greek Philosophers and combines the roots of the orientation into one Christian belief.

Expanding upon that idea, and examining it more closely we come to find that it was inevitable that America would be formed based upon these principles.

By persecuting the persecuted, we get caught up in a Socrates paradox, "I know nothing, that is what I know"

My source for this thesis is the writings of the Greek Philosophers, the City of God by St Augustine as well as the Federalist papers- fromthe writings of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,. Hamilton and James Madison and Ben Franklin. Other sources include George Washington and James Monroe.

After all this reading the one conclusion that must be made and is self-evident is that the human mind maybe able to separate religion from State in thought, but in practice, religion and state cannot be separated. For in action we are inheritantly religious. And when one opposes religion one is opposing it because they are religious.

Whew that was deep....enjoy.