1970s Religion and Policies for Today :: Essays Papers

seventies Religion and Policies for Today I vividly record sitting in my ninth grade manhood history class, yet six short years ago, when my teacher announced that next hebdomad we would begin a four week study on world holinesss. A nervous murmur swept through thirty students, either thinking the same thought, oh no, here we go again. Why is religion in our preparatory schools such a touchy topic? Teachers would rather non address religion or they carefully tip-toeing around the topic? composition attending Big Bear High School (a typical southern California school with about 1,000 students) I learned a fold about how religion is taught and how religious issues are handled. Raised in a Christian home, having my father teaching at the same school I attended, and practicing Christianity my entire life, I watched carefully throughout my graduate(prenominal) school education to see how my teachers would deal with the world and U.S. religions that play an enormous role in the history of our world and country. I am primarily fireed in how religion was taught in the early 1970s. Including what religions were covered, how they were integrated into the text, and the values of the religion that were presented. With my interest in possibly majoring in religious studies I feel that I have an excellent pinch of how religion is taught in our high schools today, but I dont have a thorough understanding of what it was like to grow up in school in the 1970s and go through school. How was religion presented in the textbooks of schools in the 1970s? My capital goal of this paper is to further my understanding of religion in high schools of the 1970s. Then I would like to further my study by looking for at newer documents and regulations that are in place now to govern religion that is taught and expressed in our schools today. What I expect to find is that religion was taught similarly in the 70s without al l the newer policies and guidelines of today. Lastly I would like to look at how these policies and regulations in our public schools are affecting our students.