Should Chad Farnan should be ashamed of himself for killing the freedom of speech in the name of his hurting little feelings?

From; online.worldmag.com/2009/05/04/ca-court-... "A California court has ruled: “improper disapproval of religion” in a public school classroom does indeed violate the First Amendment’s clause against establishing a religion. Public school teacher James Corbett told his AP European history class that creationism was “superstitious nonsense. € He also told them, “When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth” and taught a correlation between high religious attendance and high crime in America. Sophomore high school student, Chad Farnan, objected to more than 20 of his teacher’s statements and sued Corbett for violating the Establishment clause by making comments hostile to religion and Christianity.

The court applied the Lemon test — a test that says the statute in question 1) must have a secular legislative purpose; 2) its primary effect must neither advance or inhibit religion; 3) it must not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion. The court dismissed all but one of Farnan’s objections, but found that Corbett’s statement calling creationism “superstitious nonsense” did violate the First Amendment clause against establishing a religion. " My opinion.

I don't really see what creationism pro or con has to do with European history except in the context of the religious wars. I suspect that the decision will be overturned, but as an atheist, I think that the teacher was just being a jerk. I'm not surprised.

When I was a student, I met a lot a jerk teachers, both religious and not.

Corbett obviously has strong personal opinions, which isn't a problem except that his job is to educate, not proselytize. I agree with the suit. This isn't a freedom of speech issue, it's about a person that needs a new vocation.

For the record, I feel the same way about teachers that are bible-thumpers in the classroom. It's not appropriate.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.