My daughter came to us on the first day of school telling us that one of her teachers had a cross and a Bible quote on the wall. I didn’t want to get my daughter into trouble by letting the principal know about it myself since they would attach my name to it and she might face retaliation. So I wrote to the FFRF, sent them a picture my daughter drew of the cross and the Bible quote (no phones in class, so she couldn’t get a photo).

Not only were they responsive quickly when I contacted them, within a few weeks, they sent an email to the school superintendent with all the relevant legal information as to why this teacher needs to take the cross and Bible quote down and without identifying who reported her.

I’m not a member due to some financial issues right now, but as soon as those clear up, I am going to join. They do good work.

Consider joining yourself: https://ffrf.org/

  • @randint
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    29 months ago

    May I ask what event made you realize that they were wrong and that evolution was indeed real?

    • @Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world
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      49 months ago

      Yeah I never was super into the whole religion thing from the get go, I believed it bc it was convenient but never really thought or cared about it all that much. Around 8th grade. a year before the bio class, I was just reading Wikipedia until I stumbled across a page on human ancestors (Australopithecus iirc). I found it both very interesting and kind of creepy and made me rethink things, either take the word of my teachers or look at all this actual evidence presented as fact by something as trustworthy as Wikipedia. Not long after that I stopped believing all together, but I still put on a mask and graduated from that Christian school.