What I Think Would Be OK To Post In Classrooms

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I feel some version of the Golden Rule (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you) would be acceptable to all religious beliefs to post in a classroom. It would acknowledge America is a melting pot and has many different religions. What would you post? (I am so against the posting of the 10 Commandants in classrooms)

I don't think it's generally a good idea to post truisms and other kinds of pat statements because they dumb down thinking. So I wouldn't post anything. And I am definitely against posting the ten commandments too.

This was in lieu of posting the 10 Commandants. It appears that LA wants to post some religious doctrine in the classrooms

Meanwhile, everybody else is about as safe as a crawfish at a gumbo shack.

I think every physical constant and every algebraic and trigonometric formula should be posted in every public school classroom (even gym class) from kindergarten on up to 12th grade.

A periodic table

Anything Richard Dawkins ever said.

I am not sure. There has always been a lot of controversy about what to say/not say, do/not do, post/not post in the classrooms. In my day, the big controversy was prayer in the schools. The compromise that came about from the Supreme Court was a moment of silence. So each morning, it would be announced over the intercom, and everyone had to remain silent for about a minute or two. It was weird.

The next controversy was the Pledge of Allegiance. Some people do not want to pledge, others do. So, in my day, the teachers could compel you to pledge. If you did not pledge, then you get lunch detention. I got lunch detentions, a lot of them, for that and for a lot of other things that escape me now.

The argument for such things, prayer, 10 commandments, pledge of allegiance, is to build a cohesive society, in the belief that this makes a nation competitive. I believe that is true, there is validity to that argument, judging by countries such as China, which are rather uniform in many ways, it seems to me. I do not know how our melting pot would fare against China in a military conflict, probably about the same as we are faring against them in manufacturing.

I don't like these things that much either, but I do appreciate their usefulness to try to bind everyone together in shared beliefs and feelings and thoughts. Kind of like building an army.