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In a culture that recoils at the very idea of teaching school children about the God of the Bible, one has to wonder about said culture’s self-appointed commitment to “truth” when one reads a story like this. So what do you think? Is it the job of educators to impart nothing more than empirically verifiable data or is there room for cultural traditions, even the fabricated ones?

Read this, and then read this.

Thoughts?

Personally, I cannot see the educational value in taking school children to any personal life event of a teacher. I would object to children being taken to any wedding during school hours. To be charitable, perhaps this was a way for the teacher to avoid having to take a personal day.