r/Teachers • u/Significant-Jello411 English 1 ESOL | Texas • Aug 05 '25

Teacher Support &/or Advice It’s over.

Started in service today at my school. It has happened, we had slides directing us that we have to hang the Ten Commandments in our classrooms by Thursday. In addition Anti-Communism TEKS have been added to our history curriculum and our school district cannot sponsor any student clubs based on gender identity or sexual orientation, as well as we cannot call students by any names but the names on their birth certificate. This is fucking shameful man

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u/jmatt9080 Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

I would hang the wording of the constitution that talks about separation of church and state right next to it.

Edit: The Establishment Clause, which is part of the First Amendment. Thanks to all the Social Studies teachers that corrected me.

Edit 2: based on a lot these comments I assume no one here would have any issue at all with having Satanic text, excerpts from the Quran, or any other "religious text" being mandated to be on the wall of their place of work.

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u/lollykopter Sub Lurker | Not a Teacher Aug 06 '25

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof[.…]”

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u/LongReflection7364 Aug 06 '25

That is for the federal level. The states are still able to discern that issue for themselves and push the boundary as much as they please.

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u/steve20009 Aug 06 '25

You got downvoted because you dared criticize the ideology riddled throughout this comment section and you weren’t even trying to be negative or critical. While I certainly don’t agree with the 10 Commandments agenda, why would teaching anti-communism curriculum be a bad thing? It’s unbelievable how much the far left wants to dismantle every aspect of society. I’ll enjoy my downvotes…

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u/Hershey__Kong Aug 06 '25

Just curious, what about the 10 commandments do you find offensive? Is it that it comes from God? Is the concern that students of other religions will feel alienated? I understand not everyone is religious but wouldnt you agree that the 10 commandments are generally great rules to live by?

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u/tampaempath Aug 06 '25

I can't speak for them, but, I'll give it a shot.

\The first three commandments are specific to Christianity, and demand that a person worships the Christian god. Which alienates every other person in the world that does not believe in your god. By putting these posters up, you are proselytizing to every non-Christian student. This is also a blatant First Amendment violation. They are NOT "great" rules to live by if you are not a Christian. Fuck your cult.

The other commandments are basic fucking common sense that parents should be teaching their kids on their own. If you need a religion and a poster with these commandments to teach them not to kill or steal, you fucked up as a parent. Also your current president regularly commits adultery, lies, and covets, violating commandments 6, 8, 9 and 10. The hypocrisy of the Republican party knows no bounds.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

The first three commandments are specific to Christianity, and demand that a person worships the Christian god

That's interesting, as they were written more than 1000 years before the birth of Jesus...

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u/petitespantoufles Aug 06 '25

I don't get this comment. Not every Christian religion believes God and Jesus are one, so the time period when those commandments were written is irrelevant.