Teachers against Religion?

It would certianly appear that way, according to an article in the UK's Gauardian.

"Britain's biggest teaching union, the National Union of Teachers, warned yesterday that religious fundamentalists were gaining control of state schools - predominantly through the government's city academy programme..."

So the "religious fundamentalists" are "gaining control" of the schools through the use of a program that the government put in place, and the government is doing little about it, as the program is being executed. Does that not tell the NUT something; does that not tell them that the government that pays their salaries, as they are in a way public servants, teaching in schools that are government funded, having taxpayer dollars as the vessel through which they earn a living, that this government is ok with what is apparently happening, therefore they shouldn't be as alarmed as they appear to be?

"A motion to be debated at the NUT's annual conference in Torquay over the Easter weekend calls for an end to state funding for faith schools, and legislation "to prevent the growing influence of religious organisations in education and the teaching of creationism or intelligent design as a valid alternative to evolution".

So they want to government to hault what it has decided to do: to promote a healthy education and debate for a child as to the origins of themselves and the universe; an alternative to the whole "you're a worthless cosmic accident" way of teaching?

"The NUT's attack is in response to proposals in the education and inspections bill which give faith groups a much bigger role in running state schools."

There's a bill in Parliment that would give faith based organizations a larger role in running state schools?! They have a role?! Imgaine if that happened in America, my gosh, the ACLU would be asking a bigger price than David's 200 Philistine foreskins to try and stamp out such an effort!

"The motion cites a recent Guardian/ICM poll in which a majority said they were opposed to state funding of faith schools."

What don't we know about the sample that was used for the poll?

Recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned that creationism should not be taught in schools.

A man of the cloth against the teaching of Creation? Is this what it's come to?

The Department for Education and Skills said last night: "We have a long tradition of faith schools in this country. They are popular with parents and make an important contribution to community cohesion by promoting inclusion and developing partnerships with schools of other faiths, and with non-faith schools."

If our Dept of Ed said that, the ACLU and the NEA would fall over dead!

To think that the Founding Fathers of our country could not imagine education apart from Christ and the Bible. Noah Webster, American Education's "Founding Father", published a dictionary where a majority of the original definitions of words were biblically grounded. (Since that time, and in many of the recent versions, these definitions are omitted.) Many of our University's were started by evangelical Christians and it's Presidents were Christian well into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The mission of these locations of learning was to ground it's students in the Word and as such have it overflow into the various disiplines.

It is no longer like this in America, yet in England, ENGLAND, the country our forefathers left because of religious persecution, it is better than it is here, with a greater acknowledgement of Christ in education. Yet in America we have cases that come down that say no prayer in schools, no "under God" in the pledge, and no prayer at sporting events or graduations...in the words of DC Talk "what have we become?"

The Revolution must Return...

To Tony Blair: Carry on good Sir, and listen not to the sqwakings of the unions...