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Victory Christian Academy 2nd graders were given an assignment to send their teacher a picture of them reading in the bathtub. When parents addressed it, and filed a police report, the school kicked out one of the concerned children who was uncomfortable with the assignment.
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11:21 AM · Sep 25, 2022
WTF? Where are all the past pictures of naked kids?
And they want to get rid of public schools so kids are subjected to religious indoctrination on top of everything else.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)patphil
(6,169 posts)Jack the Greater
(601 posts)... But it didn't sit right." ~Mother of the little girl who was kicked out of the school.
Still weird.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Do they have waterproof books now? Do children take baths without taking their clothes off?
Retrograde
(10,133 posts)I process donations for our local library: we get a fair number of books that look like they've been read in the bath.
BTW, while I do read in the bath I've never done homework there!
milestogo
(16,829 posts)As an IT professional, I advise you not to use your computer in the bathtub.
Retrograde
(10,133 posts)People used to come up with elaborate schemes to write in the bath (see Marat during the French Revolution - but that didn't work out for other reasons). I suppose one could figure out a way to waterproof a computer (I know people who claim to use their ebook readers in the bath by sealing them in a plastic bag) but it's just as easy to do your homework on the table or sprawled on the floor!
I'm more amazed that kids still do homework these days.
Irish_Dem
(46,922 posts)Requires some motor skills and coordination so the books don't end up soaked.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)in my case it would be very expensive.
Everything would get wet.
Irish_Dem
(46,922 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)My dad did it for his entire life. I stopped when I stopped taking baths (got too fat). Now that I have lost 115 pounds I might just go back to doing it (at least magazines).
Irish_Dem
(46,922 posts)I don't think Mr. Van (my great sixth grade teacher who encouraged me to read and experience things) was into that. He just wanted my reading log - didn't want any other details.
Irish_Dem
(46,922 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,888 posts)Does the library also ask you to send a photo of you reading in the bathtub?
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Sounds too crazy.
Wait. What am I saying?
Things in the US are too cray for Ozzie Osbourne so -
BTW - Ozzie is one of my nicknames. HA
Me.
(35,454 posts)and by send, do they mean over the internet?
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,069 posts)Even when I was a small child, all church-y and Christian-ish stuff gave me the creeps. As far back as I can remember, everything about organized religion felt weird and "off" to me -- the death cult imagery like Jesus on the cross, the off-putting musty smell of the actual church buildings, the "I'm brainwashed" feeling that many very religious people radiated, etc. And, as I've aged, that feeling has only gotten stronger.
it is pure GROOMING
Sky Jewels
(7,069 posts)And the RCC is probably the world champion of grooming.
Demobrat
(8,970 posts)if the kids sent pictures of themselves sitting in the bathtub and reading fully dressed.
Srkdqltr
(6,271 posts)Demobrat
(8,970 posts)Not what the school had in mind, I suspect.
Wishful-Thinking
(109 posts)To accuse dems of pedophilia for teaching diversity in schools
.defund the school!
Ocelot II
(115,674 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)apparently been doing this for years as a fun and innocent activity overseen by participating parents of course. But, also of course, in this era when child-trafficking pederasts have infiltrated positions of authority everywhere...
There is an ironic side, though, in that this happened (if I have the right school!) to a private Christian school operated as a Baptist church ministry. Or not at all ironic, more of an "eventually inevitable."
brush
(53,765 posts)consequences, we've entered into upside down, bizarro world. It's suggested to the student's parents that the student should be withdrawn instead of the teacher who requested the bathtub photo of students. I'm sorry that strongly brings pedophilia to mind.
demmiblue
(36,841 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)And they're surprised that fundigelical teachers lean towards the creepy type? Say it ain't so!
TygrBright
(20,758 posts)Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)oregonjen
(3,335 posts)Emile
(22,674 posts)before it gets even sicker.
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)This makes me wonder: if the parents of the students somehow cross the school badly enough, will the school just surreptitiously slip the photos of their naked kids to the police?
Irish_Dem
(46,922 posts)Where did this pics end up?
On the internet?
Sold to sexual offenders?
Teachers share the pics like baseball cards?
Irish_Dem
(46,922 posts)I think the police should look into this.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)Is this Christian Grooming? Where is the outrage from the Republicans? You can bet if this was a gay teacher at a public school Faux News would be throwing a fit.
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Initech
(100,063 posts)pnwmom
(108,976 posts)of them reading inside a dry bathtub.
Then let the school try to explain why that they should have taken a naked picture instead.
bluboid
(560 posts)Warpy
(111,245 posts)so I wonder what the hell it was like. Maybe enlighten us.
I know when I was seven, I didn't like getting wet unless it was puddles or a swimming pool.
Besides, I'd been reading since I was 3 and I loved books and would never have risked getting them wet.
My picture would have been fully dressed, sitting in a dry bathtub with the open book in front of me.
It was a bizarre assignment, though. Southern Christians have always been a little strange. Now they're getting intensely weird.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)There always seems to be 1/3 who will believe any crazy shit fed to them under the guise of religion.
EnergizedLib
(1,893 posts)Who are the real predators again? This seems a lot more threatening to kids than letting them know gays exist.
Lancero
(3,003 posts)And then they swing around and do something like this.
As always, they have a habit of projecting.