The USA supposedly has a separation of religion and state.
Yet public schools have been teaching subjects that overlap religion.
Sex education is an example.
But even those who were teaching history or English imposed their views on us.
My eighth grade history teacher in Runkle school, Brookline Mass, year 1981, illustrated on the chalkboard that abortion is black and white in the first and third trimesters - in the first, it is completely okay to abort because the embryo “is like glue”.
The third trimester, well it is too late then, the fetus is practically a person. But the middle trimester is a gray area and is thus unclear whether abortion should happen in that second trimester.
No one in class raised any objection. I do not believe any parents called the principal and complained either on account of a pro life stance from conception, or for a longer time span of when it is supposedly okay to abort, or for something deeper - why was he even instructing students on this topic?
So we were told that the USA had separation of religion and state, yet teachers in public schools had free reign to touch upon topics that scripture and tradition deal with.
And no one stopped it, no one questioned it, no one even countered with the basic assumption and declared what we all should:
Parents raise children, not the state.
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