Sacred Ground

Less than a year ago, I posted about how our schools could be thought of as a religion by some definitions. This was not a new thought for me. For years, teachers have insisted that their choice of profession is a “higher calling.” That term strongly implies that they were chosen by a higher power.

Recently, I bumped into an article online that further promoted the idea that our schooling system could be thought of as a religion. The primary purpose of the article was an all-too-common insistence that it’s racist to disagree with whatever crap the Democrats want you to believe. I’m not going to go into that side of the article. I wanted to share a quote found in the final paragraph.

Waging war on sacred ground, the public school classroom.

What does “sacred ground” mean? Let me provide a quick definition from the internet.

sacred

ADJECTIVE

connected with God (or the gods) or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration.

This former history teacher who has also held the job of secretary of education in Virginia openly spoke of classrooms in religious terms. If you combine that with claims of a higher calling, direct government funding, and government control, this points to an established state religion.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the AFT tweeted a link to the article featuring this particular quote. She had to defend herself by clarifying that the quote was from the article. She should have at least shown some form of disapproval.

“As a former history teacher, I am most concerned that Youngkin’s administration is stoking the fires of racial discontent, eerily reminiscent of the 1950s, and waging war on sacred ground, the public school classroom… https://t.co/AI86jpKkkG

— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) January 29, 2022

For years, Weingarten has used the argument that school choice could lead to taxpayer funds going to religious institutions. Be honest. What’s worse, taxpayer funds going to families who select educational institutions that could potentially be affiliated with a religion of their choice or forcing all taxpayers to fund institutions tied to a religion of the government’s choice?

Let me add one more quote. This one comes from the First Amendment of the American Constitution.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Weingarten could very well have inadvertently pointed to a constitutional issue with the system that she is trying to protect.