US Politics on Yik Yak | My AP lit teacher in my public bay area HS had us quote the Bible to enhance our essays claiming that there are many allegories that would help us get a 4/5 on the AP exam. She wasn’t indoctrinating us, she was exposing a corrupt grading system bias.

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My AP lit teacher in my public bay area HS had us quote the Bible to enhance our essays claiming that there are many allegories that would help us get a 4/5 on the AP exam. She wasn’t indoctrinating us, she was exposing a corrupt grading system bias.

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keep religion out of schools

include all religions in schools

124 votes

Anonymous 15w

I feel like religious knowledge can be helpful when reading literature, reading about history, or the world. While I don’t think a religion should be taught as “truth”, religion should be talked about somewhat

Anonymous 15w

It’s not like it’s one of the most important influences on modern literature or anything, like this is a little naive

Anonymous 15w

The Bible should be allowed in schools, as major religious texts from all religions should be. But directly teaching them isn’t exactly the correct way to go about things, unless there is a class specifically studying religious applications and the student opted into taking that elective and it wasn’t forced upon them.

Anonymous 15w

I mean the whole point of the AP lit written exam is to make connections to outside source material. The Bible would have a lot of useful stuff to reference, so it kinda makes sense to me. And I say this as an atheist

Anonymous

#5 15w

Biblical allegories are literally everywhere. So having the background lets you grasp and further understand the themes being presented in many corners of literature. And that is of course a consequence of America having such a large religious population that uses the Bible. To successfully do this, the Bible would need to be taught in a similar way that schools teach mythology. As stories and not as worship

Anonymous

#5 15w

So I think using a biblical story as a teaching opportunity in an English class would be fine, I think the actual population that is fighting for the Bible to be taught in schools would be angry about it being taught in an objective way rather than the indoctrination-into-worship they want it to be taught

Anonymous

#5 15w

But usually there are dedicated religion and mythology classes that have enough time and teachers with enough expertise to effectively teach the difference between study and worship while brushing upon multiple key religious influences in society and literature

Anonymous

#5 15w

wow didn’t realize over 70% of the nation were practicing Christians. So before I found this stat, I was going to ask what you thought about including other religious texts to be taught the same way as the Bible. But I’m not sure where I stand anymore.

Anonymous

OP 15w

I think other religious texts should be taught too. And a good opportunity for that would be in conjunction with literature or media that references it. For example, maybe you’re watching a film from Japan, per se. And you see temples and statues and references to spirits and legends in this film. Studying those religious and mythological influences would provide a deeper understanding of the films influences, but also let you identify it in other media as well

Anonymous

OP 15w

Crude example, but Naruto. Naruto prominently and consistently featured a reference to the Nine Tailed Fox. It indirectly brought a piece of Japanese culture into American homes in the early 2000s. And curious kids naturally went to look up the Nine Tailed Fox and went down the rabbit hole of its origin. And now they’re able to catch the reference in other media and literature as an adult.