This is in response to the Ietter submitted by Cherry Smith.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and there is food for thought in what Ms Smith wrote. However, after reading her letter I decided to share an email I received the same day Ms Smith’s was written. The following says a lot regarding religion in the schools:
Dear God:
Why didn’t you save the school children at ?.
Virginia Tech 04/16/07
Amish Country, PA
Wisconsin
Columbine High School
Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96
Bethel , Alaska 2/19/97!
Pearl , Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah , Kentucky 12/1/97
Stam! p, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro , Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro , Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville , Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield , Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond , Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton , Colorado 4/20/99
Taber , Alberta , Canada 5/28/99
Conyers , Georgia 5/20/99
Deming , New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson , Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee , California 3/ 5/01 and
El Cajon , California 3/22/01
Sincerely,
Concerned Student
Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God
How did this get started?
Let’s see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare complained she didn’t want any prayer in our schools. And we said, OK.
Then , someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself.
And we said, OK.
Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehaved because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should know what he’s talking about so we won’t spank them anymore.
Then someone said teachers and principals better not
discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued. And we accepted their reasoning.
Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could figure it out. I’m sure it has a great deal to do with… we reap what we sow.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and there is food for thought in what Ms Smith wrote. However, after reading her letter I decided to share the above email.
Problems we are facing in Cayman are not new to the rest of the world. As we adopt the same policies as our neighbouring countries, i.e. do not physically discipline children at school who are disruptive, rude etc. we too I am afraid we will one day be faced with tragedy in our schools.
There was more in this email but I wanted to share what pertained mostly to schools in the United States. The way things are going on in our world today, I don’t think we can have too much religion in our schools or anywhere else.
Janice Ebanks
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