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Letters regarding suspended student

Letters to The Editor - 10/02/2003- Times-News

Child showed love

The parents of the middle school student who was suspended for placing a religious pamphlet on the teacher's desk should be congratulated for raising a child that would be so concerned and have so much love for her teacher that she would want to share her belief with her. In a time when parents are so worried about what their children are doing wrong, it is so rewarding to hear of a child doing what God said to do, which is to go all over the world teaching and baptizing in his name.

We need to offer our students and children choices. If they are going to be exposed to the Big Bang Theory, then they need to have exposure to God's Creation as well. I thank God that this young girl has a Christian-based church and home and especially parents that taught her the Bible as it should be taught. This teacher should realize that this was not harassment, but this little girl loved her so much that she wanted to share God's love with her. There are people who are never loved this much.

Teresa Hoskins
Kingsport

Discuss Jesus

Though Congress cannot create any laws that would in effect create a theocracy in this country, is it really a crime for a teacher to respond to a student-initiated discussion on the authenticity of Jesus Christ? If Christianity is bunk, teachers and students shouldn't hesitate to discuss, debate, and reveal its errors; if Jesus really did walk this earth, however, and was who He said He was; and if people from all over the world gave their lives because they experienced a real relationship with Him; and framers of our Constitution expressed their owing their very existence to Him, aren't we doing the children of our society a disservice by barring a discussion of Him from our schools?

Perhaps it's time to let the Theory of Evolution and other worn out, misleading teachings move over and let truth take over. If we allow that to occur, I believe we will then see things change for the better in our schools nationwide. Hats off to the student serving her time in suspension. She understands now more than many others that truth is greater than any school system, mightier than any judge, more powerful than anything in the universe. I commend the teacher in question for teaching the Big Bang Theory as just that, a theory.

Mark Hissong
Kingsport

We have rights too

I am shocked and saddened by the story of the middle school student suspended for harassment. It is perfectly acceptable that we subject our children to the Big Bang Theory; however, we are not allowed to discuss our views as Christians. All I ever hear in cases like this are people's rights. What about our right to discussion of our faith and trust in God? Our country was founded on his word and teachings. Sadly, you wouldn't know this now.

We are allowing a minority of people to dictate to the majority what their views and beliefs are. I am proud to be a born again Christian and if that means that there is to be some sort of punishment for standing firm in my beliefs, then I guess I'm just like the little girl in the article and guilty of only one thing, belief in God.

Darlene Byington
Rogersville

Suspension wrong

It is outrageous that the Sullivan County Department of Education would endorse the suspension of the Colonial Heights Middle School student who expressed her beliefs concerning the creation of the Earth. Have we really become so politically correct that every philosophy is endorsed by the state except for Christianity? We have let a small, but vocal, minority of extremists (i.e. the ACLU, etc.) dictate what our schools can and cannot teach.

The Theory of Evolution (with emphasis placed on the word "theory'') is taught to our children as a proven fact, while the "silly" notion that man was created by God is discredited as being old-fashioned. Our children are not taught that the vast majority of scientific evidence supports the biblical account of creation, not evolution and the Big Bang Theory. Indeed, children who question these theories are chided for expressing their beliefs. I can only hope and pray that the school's administration and the board of education will reconsider the suspension and right this wrong.

Jason Carder
Jonesborough

Brainwashing

The student at Colonial Heights Middle School should not have started a rumor that the teacher was an atheist because she couldn't teach the theory of creation from a Christian view. However, placing a pamphlet on the teacher's desk does not constitute harassment. The courts have ruled that school libraries have to allow books that people find objectionable due to freedom of speech and the right to express themselves. If this teacher was harassed by a pamphlet, are not the students made to read these books also harassed?

The Constitution states that the government cannot restrict the practice of religion. All the teacher had to do was drop it in the trash. Saying teachers have the same rights as students is ridiculous. Teachers are at school by their choice, students are required by law to be there and sit through anything the teachers want to teach no matter how harassing it is to the students' beliefs. To teach an unproven theory as "information'' without teaching the other side so the student can make a logical conclusion is not teaching. It's called brainwashing.

Michael Greer
Kingsport

One-sided class

It is natural for a person to ask, "Where did I come from?'' When a child wants to know the answer, is it fair to teach them one side of the issue?

In essence that is what they are being taught in our school classrooms. Now, if Christianity, Islam or any other religion cannot be taught as a means of "where did I come from?'' but only as history, then why is evolution taught as an origin?

Should not all theories be taught or discussed? Let's be fair here. Does it not take as much, if not more faith to believe we essentially came from a rock (as evolution would have you believe) as it does to say we were created by a loving God living in a fallen world? Why do we think that just because something has the word science attached to it that it's somehow superior?

When you break it down neither creation nor evolution can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's all a matter of faith. However, our tax dollars are funding the evolution faith. Sounds quite hypocritical. Both teacher and student were at fault here, and to say it was harassment is taking the new school policy just a bit to far.

I think man needs to check up and stop trying to make himself a god.

Steven Cooper
Elizabethton

Copyright 2003, Kingsport Publishing Corporation.

On top of disrupting school over religion, we have a Rev. Poff that wants to ban Halloween as Satanic.

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