Brickbat: Holding Out for a Hero

Heather Watts says her daughter was asked to write a paper on a hero for a class at North Carolina's Cerro Gordo Elementary School. But when the girl turned in a paper on Jesus, her teacher asked her to write about someone else, Watts says. In a statement, school officials said students in the class face no restrictions on who they could write about. But Watts says her daughter is still being asked to write about something different.
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Wow, how the hell are anti-fundies getting into NC?
Open borders and freedom of movement.
Yeah, they still have an official snake-handler at the legislature, and whenever there's an eclipse they sacrifice virgins until the sun reappears.
Well at least they retained some of their civility. Btw the squrls are chewing in the wires for commenting.
How can anyone of faith believe that God said "for there shall no man see Me, and live" and yet also that Jesus was God and was, in fact, seen by many living men, but some crazy how not be able to believe that this girl was both restricted and not restricted at the same time? You just have to have faith in the public school system and all its divine mysteries.
Once you decide to invest in irrationality how do you decide where to stop?
"STOP"?! You must be mad!!
"Invest with confidence -- in irrationality."
She wasn't restricted at all.
She had the FREEDOM to write about another topic.
Wow, thats one hero that didnt go home safely at the end if his shify, LoL.
http://www.holytrinityprivacy.lol/
This is....disturbingly accurate...
Nice alt-text.
Sounds like a serious plan to me dude. Seriously.
http://www.GotzAnon.tk
db summoned the Bot Rival.....CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!
You keep calling for one, but the cripples never oblige.
Hopefully this kind of authoritarian thuggery will continue and it will sour people on government schools. Then when people want to argue about smaller government and what that government should do, people will think upon the treatment they have received at the hands of public institutions, like the police, DMV, EPA, and now schools, and say "maybe the government should do less".
people will think upon the treatment they have received at the hands of public institutions, like the police, DMV, EPA, and now schools, and say "maybe the government should do less".
What are you smoking/drinking? I might like some of it.
Florida Dude, take a history class.
I said "maybe". Revolution and civil war has happened here before.
"people will think upon the treatment they have received at the hands of public institutions, like the police, DMV, EPA, and now schools..."
This has never deterred people before.
Just to horrify my teacher, I once wrote a paper like that on G. Gordon Liddy.
(No real reason, other than I had seen him on a TV show)
I had a freshman math class called, I shit you not, "Earth Algebra: College Algebra with Applications in Environmental Issues". As protest I wrote my final project on death penalty rates.
(I found out later that I didn't have to take the class - I'd tested out of it in high school. Boy was my face red.)
I'd rather take a course called "I shit you not".
Sounds like a good idea for a TV series.
Or a modern version of "Believe It Or Not".
A mix of Mythbusters and Believe It or Not.
It'll be.in the evening lineup, right before No Fuckin' Way!
And right after "Whoa."
How could the accompanying image not be a screencap from this? It's even got cowboy porn for Jesse. 😐
Cowboy Jesus porn, no less. Now, if only he were wearing chaps with no pants underneath.....
Wait, this is April 1 - I forgot. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one, Reason!
Wait, what...?
In the real world, it's April 1, but Charles Oliver linked to an article with "2014/03/20" in the URL, so it's a 12-day-old story (if not older). That'a actually fairly recent by Oliver's standards.
It even cycled through one of the links comment sections before getting here.
Oddly, I don't seem to have been having any problems with the comments this morning. Now watch me start having problems.
THAT'S THE JOKE THEN?!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ohhhh, Reason...you so cray!
Who would Jesus write about?
was he even literate? !st Century Carpenters weren't known for their books.
He seems to have mentioned several things that were written - so I think he managed. I wonder if his handwriting was any good? I would hope it was mediocre, so I could claim one aspect of divinity...
A lot of the Torah, especially at that time, was passed on orally. But there are references to his reading from the scriptures both as a child and as a teacher (for whatever it's worth since the accounts of his life were mostly written in the century following).
1rst century Jew.
Pretty sure he could read and write.
Considering that Jesus was a socialist, I assume he would write about Marx.
Jesus was a socialist?
Socialism was started by Marx in the 19th century in response to Rush Limbaugh.
Jesus sure as shit was a socialist. He deplored the rich and helped the poor. Because it is an established fact that charity alone cannot help the poor, then obviously Jesus advocated for the use of government force to rob from the evil rich and give to the poor. Everyone knows this. Where you been?
He also used his secret police, the WWJD, to crush dissent.
Chuck Norris?
he's a Belieber
Probably King David.
Or John the Baptist.
J the B - the Life of the Bug and Honey eating Baptizer o' the Jordan
Or John the Commentator
Mary Stack does the dance of the seven veils and demands his head as her reward.
I think you mean the gambol of the seven... head dresses, or something.
"My hero is My Father."
"That's very sweet. Topic approved!"
Girl should be allowed to write about whomever she wants, but holy crap evangelicals are tedious.
Yeah, the evangelicals are totally the cunts in this story.
In the two thousand year history of the Christian church, should could have easily have found some religious figure most people don't know about and written an interesting paper that still reflected her faith.
But no, that would have taken actual effort, so she took the lazy "Jesus" answer. And her favorite book is The Bible. And when she grows up, she wants to be a good Christian.
So let's give this second-grader a persecution complex early, that way she'll definitely realize she's wrong!
As I said, she should have been allowed to write about Jesus. I just personally think it's tedious that they all want to.
It's equally tedious hearing you bitch about some grade school kid in bumfuck USA for writing about religious figures you don't like.
You are making me want to write about Jesus because of your tedium.
Yeah, a grade school kid not delving into church history to find any character but Jesus to write about. What a little bitch. You're absolutely right.
I'm sure no other kid in the class picked a well-known historical figure to write about rather than perform a thorough critical analysis of their personal philosophy and pick a meaningful-yet-completely-unknown person from its obscurity. And I'm sure you'd be equally supportive of the school asking the student to pick a different subject on that basis.
I bet Judas would have been accepted. Maybe she should do John the Revelator and start with the fact that he is her hero because he describes the time when her godless teacher will be tossed into hell with child molesters and politicians.
I suspect that if she had said Obama was her hero, we wouldn't have heard about it at all.
CB
HA!
Jesus grows just as shitty of beard as i do.
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