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Tea injunction stands
The Supreme Court on Friday denied the
Justice Department's request to
In a message dated 12/10/2004 1:44:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems to me that the only relevant question in terms of this lawsuit is whether any of those assignments are properly given by this teacher to his students, not whether they might hypothetically be okay
In California 5th grade is US history.
6th grade is from the beginning of history to the fall of Rome.
7th grade goes on from the fall of Rome. Some discussion of Islam is
appropriate for 7th grade.
My wife teaches 6th grade. For the Egypt part, they mummify chicken
legs. One year, those
I like Prof. Levinson's hypo. Here's another one:
Under Islam, Jesus is believed to have been born of the Virgin Mary and
is considered a holy prophet. Read the Koran and other Islamic
religion sources and contrast this view to the Christian view of Jesus
as Messiah.
On Friday, December 10,
In a message dated 12/10/2004 1:16:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I looked over each of these assignments and I am dumbfounded by the assertion that these assignments inculcate belief. They seem well crafted to guide a student into studying the tenets of, and learning
I have been given reason to believe that the Easter assignment was not used with the class -- although similar assignments used to teach about other religions and the holidays associated with them were both approved and used. It appears that Mr. Williams based his Easter assignment on the earlier
In a message dated 12/10/2004 4:50:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure that I understand the point here. Is it that it is acceptable for public school teachers to teach religious beliefs such as the resurrection of Jesus as historical fact?
Or is it that it is
In a message dated 12/10/2004 11:18:35 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (about the assignment to study Easter):
*John Adams wrote, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
other." He also wrote a paper
Wouldn't all of this balancing have to be prediated on showing that Jefferson
and (sometimes) Madison are representative of the founders' views? This is not
at all obvious, especially on the question of religion. As judges are
notoriously bad historians, I'm not sure that this is such an easy
