This part won't work:
Meanwhile, a teacher in southeast Texas said she’s playing a “risky game” after deciding she won’t display the Ten Commandments in her classroom at all. But if she must, she said, she will hang it upside down.
The law requires an administrator hang the Ten Commandments, and that teachers not move them. But if a principal decides to hang them all upside down, well, he or she is the boss.
Until the very next school board meeting, if parents are allowed to speak.
This part:
“It says, ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.’ First of all, that means zero to my students,” said an elementary school art teacher in suburban Dallas who asked not to be named for fear of job reprisal. “If it was in wording like, ‘Be kind to one another. Don’t steal. Don’t lie,’ or, ‘Be a good person,’ because as an elementary school teacher, I teach those things all the time. Like in the first week of school, I have this whole presentation I do, and part of it is, ‘Please don’t steal our art supplies.’”
Makes me think that this teacher is a part-time facebook fact-checker. She got so used to editing and editorializing on communications that regular people have with their friends and family, that the power of editing God's Commandments seems like the next logical step.
I'm a high school teacher in Texas, so I understand her concern that some students will not get some parts, and get others. What I've been doing is every week, I have a student volunteer to read one of the commandments. Then I select a student at random, excusing the reader who volunteered, to tell us what they think that the commandment means.
If that student doesn't know, somone else has always had an idea, and then we talk as a group about whether they are right. I do this all five days of the week to give the kids time to research different intepretations.
They have been more diligent about that than doing the graded assignments. It's something they clearly want to know about, and I have no idea what relegion any of them are.
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