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Isn't that extremely hypocritical? God's authority (as she sees it) applies to gay couples, but didn't apply to her?

I teach science only. History is my least favorite subject. But I do know enough to know that the US never began as a Christian nation. This is not one of those circumstances. She is representing the government and she has to be neutral.

I was trying to be nice.

I'm saying your version of US history is absurd.

Now we're getting into the absurd. Please list more. List all of them. From all religions. Even the atheists that would say these are morality void of religion. Let's list those about stoning the gay folk and burning witches.

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The point of this whole thing is the lady took an oath to defend the Constitution. She didn't. She needs to go away just like what would happen to me if I refused to let a kid pray at lunch because I didn't like his religion.

I don't know where you are getting your information from but it is not accurate. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or whatever may all pray on campus. That is not against the law. What is against the law is the school or teacher to participate or do something that looks like an endorsement. That means the teacher can't pray with the students but the teacher has to let them pray before or after school, or during lunch. The teacher can't even hang around and make it look like he is supporting the prayers. When a teacher is in that role of teacher, there is the implication of authority over the kid

It was a school and the Muslim students were supposed to wash before the prayers. The facilities were dangerous to Muslim students because they were having to sit on the sink. Come on. That is a dangerous thing and for student safety, what is the problem? Christian students are allowed to pray, too.

You keep talking about people of faith, but what you're really saying is when one kind of Christians could do whatever they wanted and everybody else knew their place and had to keep their mouth shut. As a teacher I had to go through the issues class that covered all those things you are talking about, and it was drilled into us with case law after case law after case law, that we have freedom of religion and speech until the cows come home, but when we are in our official capacity as a teacher, we have to not show any favoritism at all. It is hard for me to fathom how any teacher, or anybody

Laws change all the time. She took an oath to uphold the Constitution with full understanding that laws change. She is an agent of the state and she either does her job she was elected to do or she should leave. I don't like the changes I know happen with teaching but I either do the job or leave.

Did other students who were in those same college prep classes succeed in college? If none could handle college, then you would have a valid point. One third of college freshman drop out after 1 year. Only one in three eventually graduate college. There are many reasons why students don't make it in college but the fact is that many are just not cut out for it. College is not the same as high school, even the college prep classes.

That remediation number has always been like that, not just today. The colleges decide what students to take, including those that aren't ready, won't or able to do the work. The fact the there is a remediation number shows that high schools are preparing the students well enough for the colleges to accept them, even those that can't, won't, or need more help and time to be ready for the harder work required in college. If you will look at the link you gave for the high school rankings you will see it notes the "free and reduced lunch" statistic. That number is directly correlated to how w

Not always. More often than not the home problems are directly correlated with poverty and all the problems that come with that.

Ok. So I called my grandfather who has been in Paulding all his life and very active in the political scene. I also called my parents about this. They said this is not right. In the 70s election, there was never a vote on whether or not to have an airport. They all said that the big question then was whether Atlanta was going to try and build a second airport and the anti-airport group ran three candidates in opposition to the airport. Two of those were Jo Ann Lawrence and Charles Cole and both lost, but I don't have any idea who those people are. They said the third opposition candidate did w

When did the county have a vote on having an airport? I asked my grandparents about it and they said the county voted on whether to issues bonds to build an airport, but never whether or not to have an airport.

An A/B student in high school may not correlate to a successful college student. College is more work and much more independent work. It is more reading and writing of papers. Some students won't or don't do the work to be successful in college but others are just not cut out for the required rigor. It is not about preparation but about whether the student is ready for it and willing to do the work. Just because a student is not cut out for college doesn't mean the student was not prepared properly.

So very true! If a parent is successful, the kids tend to be successful. If parents value education, the kids tend to value education. I've had wonderful students from all backgrounds and very challenging students from all backgrounds. It comes down to how much the student wants to do well and usually you will see the parents have the same attitude.

So sorry to hear about the passing of Julian Bond. http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/16/us/naacp-julian-bond-dead/index.html He was man of conviction and a leader in equality for all people. So sad. He will be missed.

I wouldn't say Hiram is the worst. North has the highest graduation rate while Paulding has the lowest. Hiram is the middle of the five high schools for graduation rates. North has the highest community incomes and parents who have college degrees and that directly relates to student performance.

Go to any high school after 3:30 until roughly 6:00 or even later and you will find people walking or running the track. I think summer months are pretty much all day open. I see people walking the track at all hours of the day when I go in during the summer months.

So it is there and it is just a matter of how some people want to interpret it, just like not all Muslims interpret the Quran the same.

Every student will use the field at some point, even if it is just for PE classes. All the field teams, the track and field, and the cross country teams use the field. The fields are open to the community after school hours for people to walk or run, as long it is not being used by the school teams. The turf fields are cheaper in the long run over grass because of the maintenance costs.

Pollination is the basic instrument of nature to keep many plants going. We are losing not just the honey bees, but bumble bees too. http://www.livescience.com/51502-bumblebee-range-shrinking.html Pesticides play a part in this so it is not just the changes in weather patterns.

You are right. If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. “But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand