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Posted by: bluebutterfly ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 01:02AM

There is a charter school located here in Northern CA that has become pretty trendy for the local Mormons to try and get into (there is a waitlist). I asked my sis (who jumped on the bandwagon) what the deal was. She says it is a school that was started by Mormons. They operate very strictly when it comes to dress code and other things (i.e. they wear uniforms and females in the middle-school and high school grades are REQUIRED to wear skirts and the males are required to wear pants).

I then asked her why her TBM bestie hasn't moved her kids to that school. Her response, "her husband doesn't like the fact that they seem to worship the founding fathers of our country. They were all dishonest womanizers".

Sound familiar?!?!? It took everything to not blurt out, "you mean like the founder of your so-called church???"

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Posted by: messygoop ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 01:11AM

So ironic!

While waiting for ph meeting to begin, I distinctly remember overhearing the brethren complaining about those pesky JWs always knocking at their doors to peddle their religion. They said it was quite rude to push their views on others and I couldn't help but think of the primary song "I hope they call me on a mission."

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Posted by: alsd ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 03:06AM

I wish someone would start a charter school where secular education was the primary focus. Where science, reason, and critical thinking are the focus of the education curriculum, not religious dogma.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2018 03:06AM by alsd.

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Posted by: Soft Machine ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 04:38AM


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Posted by: StillAnon ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 02:34PM

Yeah. Good luck. My kid goes to a private school. Won the "Best Private School in Utah" award. It's a Catholic school although 50% of enrollment aren't Catholic. 20% are mormons, mostly from families that moved from other states. They know that Utah public schools are indoctrination camps for mormonism. The Constitution has a Separation of Church and State. Most states try to find a way around that.

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Posted by: CL2 ( )
Date: September 18, 2018 11:39AM

It had to be more than 20 years ago, the mormons who had enrolled their children in the Catholic high school were furious that they taught from the catechism. Even as a still active mormon (but on my way out), I thought those mormons were idiots.

I have to add that when my Catholic friends moved back to Utah after being gone 30 years, they had a son in the Catholic high school in Ogden. She needed to pick up a catechism (and I'm not familiar with it, so I don't know what I'm talking about here, but that is what she told me). Anyway, she needed to get one for her son and she went to Seagull Book and asked for one.



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Posted by: koriwhore ( )
Date: September 19, 2018 11:00AM

alsd Wrote:
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> I wish someone would start a charter school where
> secular education was the primary focus. Where
> science, reason, and critical thinking are the
> focus of the education curriculum, not religious
> dogma.
They did 20 years ago it's called High-Tech high in California.

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Posted by: summer ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 05:36AM

Many parents mistakenly think that charter schools are always better than regular public schools. They might be and they might not be. Each school, whether public, private, or charter, needs to be evaluated on its own merits. And as a former principal of mine once said, you never want your child in any school the first year it is up and running.

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 09:38AM

Yes, that's ironic.

Know what else is ironic? Spelling!

hyphenated
non-hyphenated

See? :)

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Posted by: bluebutterfly ( )
Date: September 18, 2018 12:52AM

ificouldhietokolob Wrote:
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> Yes, that's ironic.
>
> Know what else is ironic? Spelling!
>
> hyphenated
> non-hyphenated
>
> See? :)


Hahaha!!! :-D

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: September 19, 2018 11:05AM

What's that in the road ahead ?

What's that in the road, a head ?

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 11:35AM

bluebutterfly Wrote:
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> Sound familiar?!?!? It took everything to not
> blurt out, "you mean like the founder of your
> so-called church???"

There were no "angels" involved with the founders of this country.

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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: September 18, 2018 11:40AM

According to mormon theology the constitution was divinely inspired.

There were always faith promoting stories of Washington being visited by angels.

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Posted by: GNPE1 ( )
Date: September 17, 2018 01:31PM

the word/ thought 'irony' isn't used or allowed in the lds lexicon.

further instances will be reported, that is all!

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Posted by: CrispingPin ( )
Date: September 19, 2018 12:24PM

If Mormons could truly grasp irony they would reject the story of Korihor.

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