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Please don't sneeze - you may get me in trouble.

Maybe this teacher is actually trying to teach them something

"Bless You" is not proper English.

"My Bad" and "Hang Out" are idiomatic phrases


Why is "God bless you" or "God blesses you" not banned? Do they omit the word "God" when they say the pledge of allegiance.

This story has the usual waft of Fox News horse ****.
 
candrew said:
Maybe this teacher is actually trying to teach them something

"Bless You" is not proper English.

"My Bad" and "Hang Out" are idiomatic phrases


Why is "God bless you" or "God blesses you" not banned? Do they omit the word "God" when they say the pledge of allegiance.

This story has the usual waft of Fox News horse ****.
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And from reading a few of the comments following the article this is not the complete story. I didn't follow up, but it sounded like she got in trouble during a test and after having been counseled by her pastor that she had a constitutional right to say "bless you" in the class.

So it's not like someone sneezed one time, she says "bless you" and the teacher grabs her by the collar and hauls her off to the principals office. She said "bless you" with an agenda far beyond saving a sneezer from demonic forces.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah I have never felt like I fit in with the "social" aspects of the church either.

When I get together with a group of my friends from work or from the neighborhood, like in our annual back to school barbecue (in 2 weeks btw), it is generally very casual, easy conversations, laughter, and fun, and several of the families that are coming are LDS and we get along great.

When I get together for a "ward activity" I feel like I am on parade more than anything else, and being watched. I get a feeling of fake smiles and underlying tension that, while not in any way overwhelming, is definitely palpable. Like tonight we had a talent show for our kids. My daughters did a few acts and it was generally pretty fun. But the conversations were all kind of uncomfortable. People checking themselves, at once wanting to talk about what is going on in their lives, and at the same time trying hard not to admit to anything that would be less than mormon-like, or take you down a rung on the righteousness ladder, and then also trying to one-up each other in off-hand kind of ways. Even conversations with the same mormons who come to our neighborhood get together feels kind of off somehow. Just really weird. I would take the sinners over the saints for a backyard barbecue any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

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I wanted to add to this. One thing that stands out is with our back to school barbecue it is fun talking about things like the new car one guy got, or another guy's new Harley. We all rib each other good-naturedly, but no one feels like the other is bragging or anything. Just people are comfortable talking about their lives in a real way since it is a safe and inviting environment. One friend who happens to be mormon recently got a new rider lawn mower. He was talking it up at our place a few weekends ago. I ran into him at the talent show and asked him if he was having fun sitting down to mow his lawn. and he just brushed it aside, and acted embarrassed that anyone would accuse him of having a riding lawn mower as if he would be labeled lazy or prideful or something. I don't know, it was just weird, and I am probably reading too much into it. But I just wonder sometimes why can't we feel free to talk about stuff like that without the specter of judgement hanging out there like that. Weird.
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I was under the impression that it's only Bubble Mo's who pour out the weirdness.

I get what you're saying. I have some serious psychological issues with growing up with the die cast mold pressure. I probably shouldn't write stuff like that on a message board.
 
Gameface said:
And from reading a few of the comments following the article this is not the complete story. I didn't follow up, but it sounded like she got in trouble during a test and after having been counseled by her pastor that she had a constitutional right to say "bless you" in the class.

So it's not like someone sneezed one time, she says "bless you" and the teacher grabs her by the collar and hauls her off to the principals office. She said "bless you" with an agenda far beyond saving a sneezer from demonic forces.
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Your chronology ain't clear or what the "trouble" was.

What is this big agenda she supposedly had besides exposing the bossy bitch's bigotry against "godly speaking?"
 
Did anybody actually read the article? She got in trouble for talking during quiet time. What she said wasn't the issue.
 
PearlWatson said:
Your chronology ain't clear or what the "trouble" was.

What is this big agenda she supposedly had besides exposing the bossy bitch's bigotry against "godly speaking?"
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Her agenda was to prove that she could say "bless you" any damn place she pleased any damn time she pleased and that anyone that stood in her way was was violating her constitutional rights...as advised by her pastor.
 
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Gameface said:
Her agenda was to prove that she could say "bless you" any damn place she pleased any damn time she pleased and that anyone that stood in her was was violating her constitutional rights...as advised by her pastor.
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So she set up the other student's sneeze just so she could use "godly speak" in the bossy bigoted bitch's classroom? Shame on that God believer!
 
PearlWatson said:
So she set up the other student's sneeze just so she could use "godly speak" in the bossy bigoted bitch's classroom? Shame on that God believer!
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Bossy bigoted bitch, aka the teacher? You know, the one who has the authority to set classroom rules that any student who was raised correctly should respect...especially during a quiet time.
 
I wish Obama was really a Muslim. Would be cool. But I know enough not to give a chance to that. I'm sorry republicans, you should quit that paranoid state.
 
PearlWatson said:
So she set up the other student's sneeze just so she could use "godly speak" in the bossy bigoted bitch's classroom? Shame on that God believer!
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You never know what will be banished from society tomorrow when we wake up. Christianity was a blasphemy in its birth. Centuries later, Pagans got popped by Christians but Christians couldn't help held onto the most fundamental paganist practices like celebrating Chistmas but actually performing a pagan ritual and a thousand examples like that.
 
Gameface said:
Bossy bigoted bitch, aka the teacher? You know, the one who has the authority to set classroom rules that any student who was raised correctly should respect...especially during a quiet time.
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Oh I didn't realize she blessed a sneeze during QUIET TIME!!!! That changes everything! She must have been raised in a damn barn to violate such a critical rule in such an untimely way. She probably woke up half the class from their naps too. I don't know how such well respected authority would ever keep control of her class again if she let the use of such audacious "godly speak" go unpunished.
 
PearlWatson said:
Oh I didn't realize she blessed a sneeze during QUIET TIME!!!! That changes everything! She must have been raised in a damn barn to violate such a critical rule in such an untimely way. She probably woke up half the class from their naps too. I don't know how such well respected authority would ever keep control of her class again if she let the use of such audacious "godly speak" go unpunished.
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You know I can't say I'm surprised but still I can't help but to be disappointed in your posts here.

You should change your name to Conservative-Thriller.
 
Gameface said:
You know I can't say I'm surprised but still I can't help but to be disappointed in your posts here.

You should change your name to Conservative-Thriller.
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Did your brain fall out while you were gone?

Punishing a student for saying "bless you" to a sneeze is ridiculously petty and was clearly rooted in the teacher's bigotry.

Maybe you just can't see it because you share the same bigotry?
 
Gameface said:
Bossy bigoted bitch, aka the teacher? You know, the one who has the authority to set classroom rules that any student who was raised correctly should respect...especially during a quiet time.
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Serious question, is the teacher allowed to make rules that supersede the constitution? I have long since lost interest in this topic as a whole, but if the kid is to be believed then the teacher has created rules that negate the students' first amendment rights. Do they actually have the authority to do so?
 
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