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Home : 2002 : September : 8
Now that I'm a lot older, I do not continue to practice the religion, but I do remember the way I felt when I deal with students in my own classroom. Since I teach in a public school, religion is not part of anything I do in my classroom. We do not have parties for any religious holidays, instead our parties are centered around different cultures, which gives the children a chance to learn something new while having fun. During the pledge of allegiance, most of my students stand and say it, but there are some who abstain (as do I, for different reasons). It is always done respectfully, and we talk about what the words of the pledge mean (part of our curriculum) so that the students who do choose to participate know what they are saying when they say it. We do not have birthday parties, either, because that has nothing to do with our curriculum, and they have the parties at home anyway. I give each of my students a bookmark on his/her birthday- something practical that lets them know that I thought of them. I don't think the parents of your Jehovah's Witness students are trying to make their kids feel ostracized. I think they are simply trying to be true practicers of their religion at all times, rather than just when it is convenient for them.
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