Hello from Texas!!

[Athiesteacher]

Hello all,

I have been a closet atheist for 2+ years but have recently started to slowly reveal my true beliefs to friends and some family. While this has been liberating in many ways, I still have not found the courage to stand up for my beliefs in my career. I am an elementary school teacher in Texas and feel like my secular humanistic views could cause me to possibly loose my job. I bite my tongue everyday at school while I have to listen to students and teachers discuss God. It is hard to understand how college educated teachers who teach science everyday to children can be so blind to evolution and all the other scientific evidence that points to the facts that god is a mythical figure. I feel sad that the children I am trying to educate are being poisoned by religion. As much as we think that public schools are free of religion, they are most certainly not. It is my hope that this forum will help me gain more knowledge atheism and help to feel more comfortable when faced with the challenges of defending my lack of faith in religion.

[PickelledEggs]

Welcome, Teach!

Glad to have you aboard, you fellow heathen!

... I hope I used proper punctuation...

[stromboli]

Welcome.

[Hijiri Byakuren]

You made the loose/lose mistake. You are already on my shit list. :P

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Welcome teacher. The public schools need people like you and though it would be a risk for you you should take a stand,  but be sure to document it and be in touch with the FFRF (freedom from religion foundation) in case you need to sue the shit out of their stick in the mud asses and undoubtedly they have lots of shit too. That's a case FFRF and the ACLU would love to take.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

Hello corrupter of youth. Remember to teach the kids to be godless druggie heathens and to indoctrinate them into homosexuality.

[Shol'va]

Hello fellow Texas resident. What area?

[the_antithesis]

What's an eacher?

[PickelledEggs]

What's an eacher?

"To eacher own."

It's the more feminine targeted version of "to each his own"

[aitm]

greetings, I spent 12 years in Lubbock, the scrotum of the state.......

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Me thinks the teacher was hoping for a bit more support here, but none forthcoming. This is a bit disappointing.

[Sal1981]

Is your username a play on words, Athiesteacher?

Welcome to Atheistforums.com!

[SGOS]

I know it's Texas and all, but I'm assuming you are expected to teach evolution, even if you disagree with it.  Or am I like really wrong about this?

[PickelledEggs]

I know it's Texas and all, but I'm assuming you are expected to teach evolution, even if you disagree with it.  Or am I like really wrong about this?

I think teachers that don't believe in evolution do still have to "teach it". But I heard from a few people that a lot of creationist science teachers start off the lesson with something like "you don't have to know this" or something similar. Although, I'm not entirely sure. I live in NJ and I only heard about it second hand. The other thing I heard is that the kids are offered a waiver that they can opt-out of evolution lessons. I think that's entirely fucked if that is true.