While the Supreme Court was hearing oral arguments May 11 about whether Catholic schools should have the right to decide whom they employ as teachers, my daughter was on a Zoom call with her Catholic schoolteacher.
Like the schools whose cases were before the court, Our Lady of Guadalupe School and St. James School, my daughter’s Catholic elementary school has one class per grade, and as a result, one teacher per grade.
My daughter’s second-grade teacher doesn’t just teach her about sentence structure and multiplication tables. She also did the formal instruction to prepare my daughter to give her first confession and to receive her first Communion.
Further, every subject taught at her school is infused with religion. That’s why parents like me choose religious education. Just as we believe our faith should permeate all aspects of our lives, we believe that a good education should be infused with spirituality, especially when children are in the most impressionable stages of their lives.
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ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
ReplyDeleteShow me WHERE, anywhere in the Constitution where the court had that authority?....I'm waiting? Tje courts are being used to push agendas, and that's NOT their place. The SUPREME court's responsibility is to decide whether or not a case is constitutional or not. They have NO place in making laws.
ReplyDeleteUm, excuse me, but doesn't this walk all over their "separation of church and state" mantra?
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ReplyDeleteHad 8 years of the nuns, and it didn't hurt any of us. Parents made big sacrifices to get a large family a great blend of scholastics and faith based instruction.
These cases arise where a teacher seeks and accepts employment in a faith based school, knowing up front there are restrictions on some personal behaviors that don't dovetail with the beliefs and practices of the faith based employer. If there is a conflict, the employer will prevail.