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Today's Poll!Grandparents help celebrate Lutheran Schools Week
Freshman students Emmett Spradlin, near, and Caleb Propst sing from their hymnals as Pastor Peter Kurowski leads an Ash Wednesday service at Calvary Lutheran High School commons. Photo by Julie Smith.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Cole Oxley enjoyed a day with grandparents — not only both of his grandparents, but also the ancestors of many of his peers at Calvary Lutheran High School.
The parochial school observed chapel Wednesday morning as it has weekly for six years.
But this was the first time to invite guests to sit in with them as recognition of Lutheran Schools Week.
Although students and faculty still are settling in to their new, permanent facility, which they moved into late last year, they enjoyed filling the naturally lit commons area for the reflection time.
Oxley coordinated Grandparents Day, which also allowed the visitors to sit in the classrooms with their students.
“A lot of grandparents have not seen the new building yet,” Oxley said.
Without the new building, there wouldn’t have been room for a couple dozen visitors in the classrooms.
“This is the first time we’ve been in the building since it was finished; it’s very beautiful,” said Oxley’s grandmother Doris Propst.
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Comments
Graceful 2 years, 2 months ago
It is unfortunate that in this nation we need private schools such as Calvary and Trinity. We should be teaching all children the values these schools are teaching. Exluding that is a form of bigotry. Justice Black was wrong when he rejected the idea that excluding Christianity from public schools would not instill hostility toward religion. It has and we are all worse off because of it.
onlineidentity 2 years, 2 months ago
OK, teach them some of the values that religious schools teach, just do not teach them that all value is derived from christ or god.
pegassuss2525 2 years, 2 months ago
What of the children who are not part of that particular Christianity or of a different religion? If you advocate teaching ALL religions and various differences w/n them equally then fine. Parochial schools are for those parents who wish a more religious based teaching. There are those parents who do not wish it and prefer to teach those values at home. Yes, there are also those parents who do not teach values or morals or religious views but that is their choice.
pegassuss2525 2 years, 2 months ago
All religion is excluded from public school. Culture is seperate from Religion. Yes, religions of the area play a role in forming that culture but they are seperate. By stating that they can open their own schools and excuse themselves you are excluding many including Christians. What has fostered the hostility is not the religion but the actions of mankind in the name of the religion. As for opening their own schools...I simply point to Calvery, Trinity, and Helias to name a few.
jdb 2 years, 2 months ago
Byron/Graceful posted: "Maybe THEY can open their own schools."
Maybe YOU can open up YOUR own school. Why should the public accommodate YOUR and only YOUR religious belief system?
To inflict only YOUR belief system is tyranny, nothing less.
jdb 2 years, 2 months ago
There are many different faiths in Jefferson City. I highly doubt that 51% of the voting population are of the same faith. Do you actually believe you could get the majority of the voters to agree on which faith will be taught to all students regardless of their own religious beliefs?
Better yet, what if the majority decides that religion should not be taught in public schools?
JCLifer 2 years, 2 months ago
The brand new football stadium, Silly!
rmsberengaria 2 years, 2 months ago
I am not a Lutheran nor a Catholic. As a citizen of the community I just want to commend the Lutherans and their new HS facilities. While, I attended public school in Eugene Cole R-V and believe my teachers where dedicated individuals, many of which had graduated Eugene and earned teaching degrees from Lincoln and returned to their community to teach us. It always amazes me that Jefferson City is so stuck on their "Sports programs i.e. Football team", that unlike Columbia who is constructing their third HS and the Catholics are building a new HS also to relieve the load on Helias, that we now have three main High Schools, 2 Parochial and one Public! I guess Jefferson City won't have to worry about over-crowding at JC HS pretty soon the private sector will fill the need for a second High School even though they are paying taxes for the Grandiose and Glorious Jays. Hopefully many qualified young athletes will have an opportunity to participate in the Parochial schools athletics programs that are denied them in the JC HS. The parents of these Parochial students need to be thanked for wanting their children to have a quality education that includes the ability of teachers to teach and discipline their children without the Political correctness and lack of discipline rampant in our Public School. I have to admit I appreciated the fact that when I attended Public school at Eugene I indeed did get the opportunity to make a trip to the office of the Principle one time and get a whipping with a paddle with holes in it! that when I went home my parents told me that I deserved what I got and supported my Schools rules and corporal punishment. If I have any lack of self esteem it was not because I was whipped or my teachers fault for not treating me PC correctly and pounding in me that we where all Winners and that there where no losers. I was taught in the real world there are winners and losers and you must work hard to be a winner. I thank Eugene for that and its dedicated Teachers.
justaword 2 years, 2 months ago
American education used to teach some semblance of morality in public school. We can’t do so any more. One reason, a big reason, is the Reactionary Radical Right (RRR). I refer to public text books states, namely Texas and California.
The RRR has an agenda, a sanitized, scripted version of American history. Diverting attention away from years of one party rule, corporate welfare, and a budget mess, Texas often talks of succession. Thus so, the Civil War wasn’t a slavery issue, but one of states’ rights. The oligarchy of mid-1800’s used 1 Peter 2:18: slaves be in submission to your masters. Exodus, where Moses freed the slaves, was not discussed, figuratively deleted.
One can only image today’s RRR version of scripture in public schools. Portions of the Holy Bible would be figuratively deleted too. The RRR sees no evidence of climate change and/or environmental degradation. Delete: Revelation 11:18.
The RRR is highly dismissive of any safety net for wage earners, widows, orphans and aliens. Delete: Malachi 3:5.
The RRR is highly attentive to other citizens’ bedrooms. One Bible writer saw only social issues. Delete Ezekiel 16:49.
The RRR, highly protective of the super rich- regardless of their methods toward worker or the environment, would not tolerate hearing of threats and consequences. One Bible writer would become a terrorist. Delete: James 5: 1-6.
The RRR sniffs at workers actually enjoying what they produce, calling it socialism. Delete: Isaiah 65:21-22.
Agree with me or not, this serves to illustrate why teaching religion in tax payer funded primary and/or secondary setting is a bad idea.
kc911foryou 2 years, 2 months ago
Is it better to have a parochial education than to have a public education? That's not really the question in my opinion. The question I see is a parents choice to determine what type of education their child gets and the methods used to achieve that education. If those methods include religious education along with the state mandated minimum standard curriculum requirements, then so be it.
I welcome Calvary Lutheran High School to our area to stand along side Trinity Lutheran, the many Catholic elementary schools, and Helias High School. Now Lutherans have a choice to continue sending their children to a Lutheran parochial school after the eighth grade.
rmsberengaria 2 years, 2 months ago
I agree.
jdb 2 years, 2 months ago
This is a sad state of affairs. The intent of this article was celebratory, but yet we are fighting like children. All of us, including myself, have trashed this news article out with our bickering and negative attitudes. Some of us profess to be Christians, but I do not see much Christian-like behavior in any of our posts.
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