[ SECRET POST #4496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4496 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Idk, I hope by “spirit and soul” you mean, like, self-worth and individuality or something, because that phrasing comes really close to the wording used by the religious fundamentalist homeschooling parents I’ve run into who think that the average public elementary school is a “den of iniquity and sin” that will have their kids sneaking of for orgies and Satanic Mass for extra credit.

But then, I think that childhood religious indoctrination is kind of gross. Exposure to and education about different religions and belief systems is cool; telling your own kids that heathens/unbelievers/whatever roast in hell (with the unspoken rider that if they don’t believe the same way you do they’ll spend eternity turning on a spit) is basically child abuse.

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[(Anonymous)]

By spirit, I mean my love of life and innate intellectual curiosity.

By soul, I mean being unleashed into the world to learn and think and come to terms with my personal faith (which is Jewish, btw). The school I was in was scholastically excellent but Orthodox during a time when the religious restrictions were really tight. You could even say my parents pulled me out partly because they felt school was getting too religious.

Throughout my life I've had time and room to decide how I feel about God. Who I think He is, if He's really there, and what kind of relationship I have with Him. I was allowed to wonder and worry and come up with my own ideas. (Funnily enough I think like a Rabbi. Ask me any moral quandary and my answer is already in the Talmud.) My parents provided me with structure and information and helped me feel safe to understand my spiritual life. I don't think that would have happened in school.

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[(Anonymous)]

"My parents provided me with structure and information and helped me feel safe to understand my spiritual life. I don't think that would have happened in school."

In the U.S., it's not supposed to? Surely parents should be the ones to provide their children with the information and guidance to understand their spiritual life and any religious leanings they have?

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[(Anonymous)]

You are correct, but there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding in several of these threads that parents are being forced to choose between sending their kids to school and teaching them things at home. This whole sense of “if you let the public school teachers near your children, they will steal your right to take them for a walk and n the woods or talk to them about God” sounds very much like a cult’s reasoning for why you need to stay away from outsiders.