Seventh Grade Assignment Asks Students To Deny God Exists, Or Fail (VIDEOS)

By: Adan Salazar, Infowars |

Teacher said bible was written by people “trying to get attention”.

Parents of students at a middle school in Texas are upset after a classroom assignment forced children to deny the existence of God or take a failing grade.

Jordan Wooley, a 7th grade student at West Memorial Junior High School near Houston, bravely spoke before the Katy Independent School District (ISD) school board Tuesday about the assignment handed out by her reading teacher which she says made her question her faith.

The exercise asked students to note whether a series of statements were either factual claims, commonplace assertions, or opinions.

“Today I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith, and told me that God was not real,” Wooley told school board members.

“Our teacher had started off saying that the assignment had been giving problems all day, and we were asked to take a poll to say whether God is fact, opinion or a myth,” Wooley said.

“And she told anyone who said fact or opinion is wrong and that God is only a myth.”

Wooley described how the teacher went on to tell students who believed in God “they were completely wrong.”

“And whenever we asked why we were led to believe he was true if he is untrue, she said to ask our pastors,” Wooley recounted.

She also described to board members how the teacher asked her to prove God’s existence, at which point the student referenced the bible and stories about people who died and “went to heaven” only to come back and tell their stories.

“And she told me that both were just things that people were doing just to get attention,” Wooley said.

The distraught student also related how emotional tensions in the class were elevated, describing how one of her friends grew so incensed she threw everything off her desk and onto the floor.

“Another child had asked the teacher if we could like try to put what we believe in on the paper, and she said you can if you want to get the problem wrong, and you’ll fail the paper if you do.”

Wooley’s mother Chantel was blown away by the assignment.

“[T]he kids were caught in a Catch-22,” Chantel told KHOU. “If they argued their faith, they were being told they were arguing against their faith. And that happened in the classroom.”

Katy ISD released a statement insisting “the assignment was intended to encourage critical thinking and dialogue and not question any students’ religious beliefs,” according to KHOU.

“Still this does not excuse the fact that this ungraded activity was ill-conceived and because of that, its intent had been misconstrued,” the statement said, adding that the unnamed teacher was being vilified “without knowing her, her Christian faith, or the context of the classroom activity.”

Wooley says, despite Katy ISD’s assertion, the assignment was in fact graded, and that to pass she would have had to write something that went against her faith.

“I love reading, so for me personally to have to fail reading because of what my beliefs are just shocked me,” Wooley said.

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• Bobbyray

  Obviously that Teacher is forcing her beliefs on children and anyone she can. I say to her: “Prove that God does not exist”. She can not so her belief is just that, a personal belief. SO she needs to go to jail for her crime of forcing her religious belief on children under her official capacity as a PUBLIC School Teacher. She is a criminal and that is not a belief or opinion it is a fact. She has no right legally or morally to do that especially in a formal public classroom. If the School board allows it, then they too are supporting her criminal act and should be arrested. This is not acceptable conduct by any teacher or school. It is Unconstitutional and has violated the students constitutional rights. It is a Federal hate crime too.

  When anyone tries to force their personal religious or non-religious beliefs on anyone it is a crime.

  It is acceptable for all people to believe in GOD or not, it is a personal human choice and right as a human being.

  Nov 3, 2015, 1:13 pm 0 Reply