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re: High School
SDAI-Tech1 — (archived)

Arizona is a bit strange. And even after a number of years I'm still acclimating to various aspects.

As SDG mentioned, it's every day. And this school I'm talking about has 5 periods of 1 hour and 20 minutes, which is way different from CA which had 50 minute periods. Freshmen get no study hall and so they have to cut an elective to attend.

At first I thought the school was giving credit for the class when I saw how many were attending throughout the day.

I wouldn't have been so concerned if the AZ schools hadn't already caused me some good reason. I had firsthand reports from an 8th grade student reported that the science teacher was getting into creationism and when an atheist student confronted the teacher about it, was shouted down in front of the class and called 'close-minded'. The music teacher would choose only religious songs to sing during the holiday choir performance, etcetera.

That's the real problem with extremely high religious indoctrination in a community, it saturates the public schools with folks who have completely blurred the church/state thing. Environment plays a heck of a role in determining these folks' notions of what is acceptable or not.

I knew I was in a religious twilight zone when most the churches here are BIGGER than the high schools and some are built on land the size of a CA shopping mall.

I suspect your neck of the woods is only mildly religious in comparison.

Forced tithing apparently pays off big dividends.

;-)

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