what are your feelings of a church bringing in activites to teach Character ed in public schools

[OswegoAtheist]

11. No.

And I'm not saying this only because it's a church, but because I feel that it's my job- and my responsibility, and my right as a parent- to teach "values" to my children. Even similar values can be framed and taught in very differing modes. But I think I'm in the minority on that.

Plus there's also this from OP link:

The first participating school, Seltzer, has done year-end parties and let their kids come to NewSpring church’s KidzWorld environments

for a movie, pizza and play time as rewards for excellence in school.

Bolding mine. That's not cool, and there's a suspicious part of me (based on mountains of prior instances) that believes that this is a backdoor proselytizing effort. I'm glad that there's an organisation (a church at that) which wants to do this for so many kids, and I'm sure that they mean nothing but the best, but I don't think that there's an effective way to ensure that the secular message the church is promoting doesn't cross over into the religious. Principals and school boards in this country are more than happy to cede this authority, and the judiciary can only be reactive, not proactive, when it comes to problems of church/state separation.

In the end, I think that the temptations are too great for the churches, the oversight just isn't there, and the parents should take more responsibility for teaching their children values.

Oswego "and in this perfect world, puppies shit lollipops and unicorns prance on rainbows" Atheist