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Thursday, October 22, 2009

It is good that school officials in a predominately Mormon area can still keep things secular.

Bus driver disciplined for asking kids to sing
by Jeremy Foster/KTAR (October 21st, 2009 @ 3:27pm)

MESA, Ariz. - A school bus driver in the East Valley is in trouble after asking LDS students on the bus to sing religious songs on the way to school.

Kathy Bareiss, with Mesa Public Schools, says while most of the students on board were Mormon, not all of them were.

"It's not appropriate to ask children what their religion is," Bareiss told KTAR. "The bus driver has been disciplined and we are sending him for some training."

She says some students weren't happy with the bus driver for asking them about their religion.

"Unfortunately there were some students who were not LDS and they were uncomfortable in the situation," said Bareiss.

The children on the bus attend Hermosa Vista Elementary School in Mesa.

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john_poson26 93p · 808 weeks ago

I find it just astounding how unintelligent and rude most Xtians are. I remember back when one of my children was in grade school, and refused to sing silent night in the xmass program. I had a hard time explaining to his teacher why, we didn’t do the christmas thing. We even waited until the 26th before letting them open their gifts. And the kids were just fine with that. She still could not understand why my son was so appalled by the baby jesus thing. That year he was the only kid in his class to get an xmass gift from his teacher (wrapped up in xmass paper; was a brand new bible). I almost went ballistic!

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No2Religion 85p · 808 weeks ago

Man, I WOULD have gone ballistic if my child's teacher had given her a bible. Of course, my daughter probably would have returned it herself.

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john_poson26 93p · 808 weeks ago

I think the only reason I didn’t shove it up her ignorant Christian ass, was; she gave it to him, on the last day of school, before the two week winter Christmas school-break. On Christmas morning, my son woke up and decided to use the bible, to start the logs burning, in the fireplace. The first day he returned back to school, the teacher asks him if he enjoyed her gift; he told her “yes, it gave me a warm feeling.” She didn’t fuck with him, the whole rest of that year!

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No2Religion 85p · 807 weeks ago

Congrats guys. You have made this the longest thread I have had. Although, it went off topic the comments have been great.

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