Mary Had a Little Lamb

**SARS-expl0ted** · 10-01-2007, 10:37 AM

Am I the only one who sees this as being a little....too much?

I know the image is small so if you cannot read it, this is what it says:

Mary had a little lamb,
his fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
the Lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school each day,
twasn't even in the rule.
He made the children laugh and play
to have a lamb at school.
And then the rules all changed one day,
illegal it became.
To bring the Lamb of God to school,
or even speak his Name.
Everyday got worse and worse,
and days turned into years.
Instead of hearing children laugh,
we heard gun shots and tears.
What must we so to stop this crime,
that's in our school today?
Let's let the Lamb come back to school
and teach our kids to pray.

I think this is ridiculously stupid. I honestly wish crime and things like that could stop by something to easily but...yea...not happening. I don't know. I read this, thought it was crazy so I thought I would share it.

**Opunaya** · 10-01-2007, 10:42 AM

Well, it's kind of hard to let the children "laugh and play" when you're banning ganes like "tag".

**Kelley** · 10-01-2007, 10:54 AM

Oh goodness. Absolutly ridiculous.

**SARS-expl0ted** · 10-01-2007, 10:59 AM

When and why did they ban tag?

I just think this entire thing is ridiculous. Praying has nothing to do with how people raise their children and what they do in school. I guess this is another one of those false hope things...like Heaven.

**Kelley** · 10-01-2007, 11:02 AM

Tag in schools was banned sometime ago when the schools kept getting sued by 'concerned' parents because their children would get hurt during play.

**SARS-expl0ted** · 10-01-2007, 11:05 AM

Then fucking home school the little shits...damn. I got hurt all of the time and my mom didn't fucking baby me. I get tired of this bullshit.

**Opunaya** · 10-01-2007, 11:08 AM

Not EVERY state has banned it, just a few schools have started banning it...I have no clue why except I bet the people on their schoolboards must've been the fatties at school that always got caught first...when they didn't shit themselves.

acutelyaware · 10-01-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Kelley

Tag in schools was banned sometime ago when the schools kept getting sued by 'concerned' parents because their children would get hurt during play.

oh my. what is the world, or at least America, coming to? i mean, if they tag a classic game like TAG-what is next?

10-01-2007, 01:01 PM

Lol, I remember them banning "red rover" when I was in elementary school.

**Brother of Yeshua** · 10-01-2007, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Girl

Lol, I remember them banning "red rover" when I was in elementary school.

That happened at my school too. That game is ridiculously dangerous though, but damn is it fun!

More on the topic of the OP, that poem is ridiculous. I love the bumper sticker "as long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools." The idea that by banning any overt affiliation with any religion schools have "barred God from their walls" is not only ridiculous, it doesn't even fit with the idea of Christian theology.

Apparently their god is omnipresent, unless some evil liberal witch casts a spell to keep him out.

This is stupid. Public school's shouldn't teach religion, unless in a context relevant to history, culture, or in the context of a world religions course (like that could ever happen at a high school).

Example, in 10th grade, I had a World Cultures class, and for the class we were each assigned 2 different countries, we studied about about 25 countries (some of them were very small, like all the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia). When we got to our assigned countries, we had to spend one day teaching the class as much information as we could learn. In that, we were expected to discuss the areas common religious belief systems.

This is rational, and for education's sake (the same teacher also spent the entire first day of class teaching us the origins of racial slurs from around the world, yes, including nigger, and managed to do it respectfully).

While deeper religious study may be better reserved for college, it is not out of line to present basic religious worldviews, yes even including Christianity.

However this "poem" is drivel spewed by a fundamentalist dogma that belongs in the 3rd century where it came from.