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[Moontanman]

I honestly have no problem with Bible History being an elective but I have to wonder if this is not a thinning of already limited resources for something that is not really necessary education. I would much rather see money spent on music (which has been shown to increase things like math scores) or even athletics.

This another example of the squeaky wheel getting the grease. In some areas the only people who seem to care about what is being taught in school are those that think that religion or some part there of is more important than a real education. these people use the problems seen in schools as an excuse to promote a religious agenda. often the idea is that putting God in the class room will make everything ok.

The real problem is often lack of parenting and lack of funds for more programs that really help with educating children. many of these people cannot get their kids to go to Church so they want to teach religion in school where the government makes their children go. It's sad the children are the real victims of this type of thinking.

This problem is also self perpetuating, children of these schools emerge with much less that the necessary skills to support and raise their own kids and then turn to the false promises of religion to get help for their kids and so it goes on and on. Religion is not a bad thing necessarily but when it interferes with the education of children and in so doing causes an under class of people who are caught in a downward spiral of lower expectations and substandard education it's real evil.

One problem with this is that the people who are promoting the less than standard education think they are doing a good thing. They truly believe they are helping by injecting God to replace education and in do so cause the very conditions they are trying to stop.