middle american lutheran

I served on the board of a charter school made up primarily of famillies that had homed schooled their kids up to that point. We follow a "Core Knowledge" approach, one that most folks would consider very conservative, with very high standards, lots of homework, and a step by step or builing block approach to learning. By the sixth grade our kids have read more unabridged works of literature than most Americans will read over the course of there whole lives. My wife is always telling me that I'm a stick in the mud and am to conservative. I offer this biographical information to place my following coments in context. 1. If the facts reported in the New York Times are true, the teacher should be immediately placed on leave and steps shold begin to remove him and the same steps should be taken for the principle. It is completely unacceptable for a teacher, with the authority ond power of the school district behind him or her, to make statements of his or her personal religious beliefs, regardless of the religious tradition that they spring from. People need to understand a basic fact: THIS IN NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION.