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Related: About this forumBronx middle school teacher disciplined for ordering her students to pray to Jesus
Michelle Schindelheim told investigators she stopped class and told pupils "they were going to talk to God"
By Rachel Monahan And Ben Chapman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 9:01 PM
A God-fearing city teacher earned a slap on the wrist for ordering her students to kneel and pray to Jesus, education officials said.
Michelle Schindelheim, of Bronx Middle School 301, drew the attention of investigators in March 2011, after students complained that she was forcing them to pray to God instead of teaching them to read.
Students told investigators that just before Christmas 2010 the English as a Second Language instructor stopped class and told students they were going to talk to God.
Then Schindelheim, who is 47 and earns $80,000, ordered students to sit in a circle and sing and pray to God, making the kids recite The Lords Prayer in their native Spanish.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-teacher-scolded-forcing-kids-praise-lord-article-1.1182839
This is the Bronx, not Tuscaloosa.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)That is all.
humblebum
(5,881 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Fired on the spot would be my guess.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)In fact, the whole topic of religious belief should rarely come up, except in a historical sense. I'd be just as vehement if a teacher ridiculed any religion or religion in general in the classroom. It's just not a suitable subject for public school. Teach the First Amendment and leave it at that.
rug
(82,333 posts)She said she normally wouldnt teach that way and she knew that such a curriculum was not acceptable in a public school.
Shortly after the incident, she took a medical leave.