>>>>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585102,00.html?test=latestnews
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>>>What subject was he teaching? I only ask because of this statement in the original article:
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>>>During a religious education lesson about Jonah and the whale,
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>>When I was a boy teachers were allowed to mention religion and we even had a couple of courses religion related (in a public school). This was before the age of the 'offended'. Dunno what they can do in England.
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>Interesting. I think we are about the same age and there were no religious classes in school for me. Back then most people got it from Sunday School, which IMO is as it should be. Religion has no place in public schools other than as an elective history class.

Me, too. No hint of religion in my classes in public school and no electives to study religion, with the one exception that my high school had a tradition of foreign language classes learning a Christmas carol in the language, which annoyed me mightily, since we didn't learn any other songs the rest of the year.

Tamar