I should never read the news because someone or something always ticks me off. Apparently, Californians will not stop at the pledge of allegiance. They are now attacking documents that make this country free such as the “Declaration of Independance” all because they reference GOD.’, ‘Patricia Vidmar, the principal of Cupertino’s Stevens Creek School, has banned the following documents as “hand outs” to supplement social studies classes:
Declaration of Independance
various state constitutions
George Washington’s journal
John Adams’s diary
writings by William Penn
She banned them because, “many original source documents from the founding era contain references to God and Christianity.”

This all came to fruition when teacher Steven Williams decided to use a proclamation from President George W. Bush dealing with the National Day of Prayer. Apparently a parent became upset that Williams handed out a copy of the proclamation to his students and ever since Vidmar has been censoring Williams’ lesson plans to exclude important historic documents based on if they reference God or Christianity. Other teachers are not required to under go this scrutiny and Williams is only being scrutinzed because he is an “orthodox Catholic.” Steven Williams has been a 5th grade teacher at Stevens Creek for 6 years and has recently just come under this scrutiny for passing out these documents as supplements to his lessons.

Yes, everyone has a right, but I do not think it fair that people are walking all over mine to change our nations history to fit into there own twisted point of view. Leave history alone and let it be taught truthfully and without censorship. This is crazy and I just know that this will snowball just like the “Pledge of Allegiance” issue did.

-SJ

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