Do Students Benefit From A Laic Federal Education?
The debate whether or not public schools should have some religious education and classes has been ongoing for decades…Far back before the federal courts ruled in 1962 about government sponsored religious activities.
Indeed there is a significant number of things that will provide benefit to the students both morally and professionally from a religious common background, but as with anything this powerful; in the wrong hands it can be lethal. Additional debating issues have arise since the happenings on September and March in both the United States and Spain not to mention all the attacks on British soil. Religion has become a more debatable spot than ecology and this, some time ago, was a lot to be said.
Ethical and moral knowledge is basic on the developing of mature and responsible adults and these teachings, which mostly begin at home; have to be reinforced during school hours so they become a habit more than a teaching. But cultural diversity causes that teachers need to focus more time studying which ethical and moral values are common ground for all these religions rather than focusing on the overall picture.
Are teachers knowledgeable enough to handle this type of matter? If religion was implemented in federal education, defining the proper religion would it unleash a debatable hell? Catholics differ from evangelists and from the church of the latter saints; who, of course, have little in common with Jewish and Muslim beliefs and if prayer before class should be allowed. The class would last 5 minutes because every religion would have the right to be heard and their practitioners the right to do the prayer in their own way.
Therefore, intolerance to politically incorrect measures despite the good intention on which they are carried out looking for the greater good in terms of responsible and mature professionals that will help and assist on forming a well balanced world will always taint the possibility of an proper education.
An option would be to provide public schools and the entire federal educational system with teachers devoted specifically to the study of world religions, these people with high knowledge skills on such prickly matters could provide the necessary elements for the development of functional and ideal professionals. The proper development on such matter could also help strengthen family and social ties as well as create tolerant and amicable human beings.