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By Cathy-Dee

For the most part, most of the teachers on this board and the others are extremely talented and supportive colleagues. But... we do have some who seem to enjoy the challenge of getting into battles over the smallest issues.

When
I mentioned the book series, I was thinking of a couple of issues that have happened in the past. One series was a set of readers that ended up being banned in many schools because of the "religious" nature of some of the stories. Some stories went against Christian beliefs. Another series is more recent, the Harry Potter series. Those working in private schools, Christian

schools may have real issues regarding these series and want to discuss the issues from the viewpoint of their background and that of their school without getting into the controversy surrounding those issues.

Just recently a teacher posted a question about paddling, in her original post she hoped this wouldn't turn into a battle about paddling, but of course it has.

I'm not saying that all the questions we might ask on a board for private schools would automatically become a place for negative responses, but if I want to find out more about how teachers handle prayer in their classrooms, I'd rather talk with like-minded teachers than get responses against prayer in schools. If I wanted to find out how others felt about prayer in schools, then I would post to the main boards and expect a variety of answers for and against. All with merit.

Having some different boards allows us to talk with teachers who are coming from our backgrounds and have the same type of concerns, problems and good things happening within their school settings.

And I'm all for controversy if we do have good debates on the subjects. I find it quite interesting to learn about how others do things or understand issues.