{"id":2273176,"date":"2024-06-21T04:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ten-commandments-should-be-taught-in-classrooms-not-just-hung-on-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T04:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:12:03","slug":"the-ten-commandments-should-be-taught-in-classrooms-not-just-hung-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ten-commandments-should-be-taught-in-classrooms-not-just-hung-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments: Teach Them, Don&#8217;t Just Display Them in Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-ten-commandments-should-be-taught-in-classrooms-not-just-hung-on-the-wall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2273176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2064recent\u2063 legislation in Louisiana mandates the display of the\u200d Ten Commandments \u200bin every public school classroom, from elementary levels up through college. Governor Jeff Landry supports this, aiming to challenge the current Supreme Court precedent regarding the establishment\u2063 clause of the First Amendment. The law is expected to spark legal challenges, which its proponents welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Governor \u200dLandry \u2064and other Republicans justify\u200d the\u200b law as a means to \u2063foster respect for \u200dthe rule of law, claiming such \u200ceducation must start with\u200b historical\u2063 lawgivers \u200dlike Moses. However,\u200c critics argue\u200c that merely posting the \u2064Ten Commandments is insufficient for teaching students about the rule of law and moral standards.<\/p>\n<p>The article also comments on the\u200b broader issue of education in the U.S., criticizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-executive-editor-steps-down-publisher-warns-staff-people-are-not-reading-your-stuff\/\" title=\"Washington Post's Executive Editor Resigns As Publisher Alerts Staff: \"Audience Engagement Needs Improvement.\">left-leaning\u200b tendencies<\/a> of\u2063 public \u200dschool teachers and the influence of teachers&#8217; unions. It suggests that if the real intention is to educate about the\u200c Ten\u200b Commandments and related philosophies, there needs to be an overhaul of the\u200d teacher education and credentialing systems.<\/p>\n<p>the article discusses the implications and motivations behind Louisiana&#8217;s new law,\u200d its\u200b potential legal\u200b challenges, and criticizes the current state of public education in \u200dAmerica \u2063regarding the teaching of law and morality.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Louisiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/19\/us\/louisiana-ten-commandments-classrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made news this week<\/a> for passing a law that mandates the Ten Commandments be displayed on the walls of every public school classroom, including elementary schools, middle and high schools, and all public college classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The law defies a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law in Kentucky, so this is certain to be challenged in court \u2014 a prospect supporters of the legislation are counting on. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to be sued,\u201d said Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who has been rather open about one of the purposes of the law: to challenge Supreme Court precedent on the First Amendment, specifically regarding the establishment clause, which for the past half-century has been used to excise nearly all formal recognition of religion from America\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-771084444\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c3bac7a07e203bacc84e4ad32c6298f2 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c3bac7a07e203bacc84e4ad32c6298f2\"><\/div>\n<p>As a vehicle for challenging bad precedent, the law seems sufficient. But another purpose for it, at least according to Landry and other Republicans, is to instruct and mold students. \u201cIf you want to respect the rule of law,\u201d the governor said, \u201cyou\u2019ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is true as far as it goes, but it doesn\u2019t go very far. The idea that posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms will do anything to inculcate in students a respect for the rule of law, to say nothing of basic morality, is pure fantasy. You might say it\u2019s necessary but not anywhere close to sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to teach students to respect the rule of law and understand that just laws are based on objective moral standards, then you\u2019re going to have to do more than post the Ten Commandments. You\u2019re going to have to get to the root cause of why these things are not taught in public schools anymore \u2014 in fact the opposite is taught, that objective morality is oppressive and that the rule of law is systematically racist.<\/p>\n<p>That means you\u2019re going to have to do something about the teachers and administrators. It\u2019s no secret that public school teachers all over the country tend to be far more left-wing than the average American and that no matter how small or conservative your community might be, its teachers and librarians and public school administrators are among the most radical people in it. They are supported by powerful teachers unions and come out of an education and credentialing pipeline that exists to put left-wing ideologues in classrooms and school bureaucracies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e6bfc802100dc486eef30a8a8212dc95 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e6bfc802100dc486eef30a8a8212dc95\"><\/div>\n<p>If you really want students to learn about the importance of the Ten Commandments \u2014 to say nothing of Christianity, Western philosophy, or the American founding \u2014 then you\u2019d better be ready to take on the teachers unions and dismantle the teachers colleges and credentialing programs.<\/p>\n<p>All of those things are of course well within the mandate of state legislatures. If the GOP-controlled Louisiana legislature has enough votes to mandate the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in the state, surely they have enough votes to shut down the teachers colleges and repeal the laws requiring that every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-into-classrooms-union-vows-to-call-a-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Orders Teachers Back Into Classrooms, Union Vows To Call A Strike\">public school teacher<\/a> be credentialed from such colleges.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all well and good to pass laws with a view of changing Supreme Court precedent on establishment clause jurisprudence, but that doesn\u2019t really strike at the root of the problem. Even if the Ten Commandments are allowed to remain on the walls of Louisiana classrooms, students aren\u2019t going to learn anything about them unless they\u2019re taught by teachers who themselves understand the importance of the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the problem. The institutions that were once supposed to safeguard our education system have been taken over and transformed by leftist radicals who hate the very things we need them to teach our students \u2014 like respect for the rule of law or what the Ten Commandments are and where they came from.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-baf4f64cbbfb7e13efbe8d922752fe65 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-baf4f64cbbfb7e13efbe8d922752fe65\"><\/div>\n<p>What can be done about this? Plenty. Conservatives who actually care about such things are in the minority in America. They don\u2019t wield a lot of institutional power. But Republicans, who count at least some conservatives among their ranks, currently control state legislatures and governors\u2019 mansions (trifecta control) in 23 states. If the GOP in those states really wanted to fight back against the left\u2019s control over public schools, it could push for the abolition of teachers colleges, or of credentialing requirements, or change them so that public school teachers need not be indoctrinated in Marxist ideology to teach in a Republican-controlled state.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, much more than just that could be done \u2014 <em>if<\/em> the right wanted to fight back. The key thing is getting over this idea that we must preserve at all costs an outdated and fundamentally flawed notion of neutrality in our public institutions, that public schools, for example, must be silent about religion and morality even as they indoctrinate students in what amounts to a new religion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-americans-can-no-longer-conduct-business-and-commerce-as-usual\/\" title=\"Conservative Americans Can No Longer Conduct Business \u2014 And Commerce \u2014 As Usual\">leftist political activism<\/a>, bombarding them with lessons derived from critical race theory and LGBT ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The left obviously doesn\u2019t care about neutrality. Every institution and public space they are able to control is immediately used to push a very non-neutral message and agenda. Conservatives are the only ones who even pretend to care about neutrality anymore. It\u2019s time to change that. Neutrality has always been a luxury good that only a religiously and culturally homogenous society could afford. Once the left weaponized it as part of a campaign to take over institutions, it became folly to adhere to it.<\/p>\n<p>And yet most Republican officeholders still do. They should stop and get serious about getting the Ten Commandments back in public school \u2014 in the curriculum, not just posted on the wall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1da9d5442e7d55ebe514abba913b9e47 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1da9d5442e7d55ebe514abba913b9e47\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana recently passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms, from elementary to college levels. 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