Absolutely Outrageous!

People have a tendency to organize themselves into groups. It's natural human sociology. It's most often seen today in national identities, consumer choices, and arguably most importantly, religion. But things can get out of hand. And now I am very upset at the recent event that have transpired at Springs Charter School.

You see, Springs Charter School has been called out many times by many different people because of their pulling of certain books from their shelves. They took down Corrie ten Boom's The Hiding Place because it quoted passages from the bible. This is the result of a larger request to pull down all books that are "Christian books, books by Christian authors, and books from Christian publishers."

This is outrageous.

But what most people don't realize is that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

As a student of Springs Charter School (oh yes, I am a student there), the first I heard about this was not from the bookstore, but from my teacher. Who was fired. For his religious beliefs. For being christian.

Let me tell you the whole thing.

My teacher, Mr. Jonston, was my science teacher, and a good one at that. He was kind, patient and tolerant. He helped everyone whenever they asked for it, and is (now was) one of the best teachers anyone could ask for. But he was a christian science teacher. He told us that he was christian. He told us that he believed that evolution had some holes in it. And it does. And knowing that there are holes in scientific theory helps us practice good science in questioning everything. And yet he was fired for it.

Myself and virtually all of his students are absolutely shocked over this. We didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to him before they ripped him from his employment. We're going to create a petition and present it to the school. Because I will not sit here and watch an innocent man loose his job over his religious beliefs!

I hope to get the word spread as far as I can about this. Something needs to be done. I hope to get the school to offer Mr. Jonston back his teaching position. And hopefully, with enough people, we'll be able to do just that.