double standards and church and state

Double standards are when there are a set of rules for

one set of people and another set of rules for another set of

people. How dose this pretain to the seperation of church and

state do you ask? Relgion in school is my answer. We as

students are not supposed to preach our religion in school. But

along with that there is also a section within each of our text

books that is all about religion.

Teachers tell us that those are only classics and we

have no reason to complain. Then they expect and incourage

us to discuss about the a religiose storys within our text books.

This act makes many students religios or not uncomfortable. I

know this because I have asked several students how they felt

about the issue.

One student had told me how he had to go through a

discussion an atheist student had brought up about his thoughts

and beleifs on religion. This made the student i asked very

uncomfortable and angery at the fact that the atheist student

was preaching , as my friend felt, against my friends religion to

his class. This act of discussing, as the teachers put it, made

this sertain student very angery at the fact that the teacher can

sit there and let the student preach against someones beliefs.

Knowing that many people, not only the student I spoke to,

believed in what the atheist was aposeing. So my friend was not

the only one angery at that discussion and not showing it, but

many were.

This issue of discussion also gose other ways. For

example, say a Jewish student was assigned ,along with the rest

of the class, a religious short story on a Christian belief. When

he returns to the school and the teacher starts a discussion on

the story. The teacher explains the back ground of the religion

and gets into great detail . To this Jewish student this sound alot

like preching the Chrisian beliefs to the class. There could also

be a different student in the class that had the same problem

and he or she just happens to be a Buddist, Muslim, Mormand,

ect. This explaining of the Christian religion could sound like

preching to anyone with a different religous back ground.

Anyone that can make a student quit reciteing the

Pledge of Allegiance every day just because of the statement,

"One nation under God".