Late Wednesday? Is the school board all members of the Southern Baptist Convention?

First, most parents overschedule their kids activities. However, with some forethought and planning (and possibly asking a few questions) one can eliminate the overlaps. My church has services 3 times on Sunday mornings, which provides plenty of opportunity to attend a service and extracurriculars.

The leagues usually have the schedule set at the time of enrollments/sign-up. Check the schedule, if it will constantly conflict with attending services–find another league.

As far as I read in the Constitution…church and state separation refers to the FEDERAL gov’t not setting up a national religion, like there was in England.

Has nothing to do with state-run/funded operations. People don’t know their own Constitutional rights. If the states choose, they can do whatever they want, essentially…or until the rogue courts make their own rules and overrun the Legislative and Executive Branches’ authorities.

Didn’t mean to hit Enter.

Suzy, you’re also right. There’s a balance that can be found. If you want to do both but the schedules conflict, then you need to determine which is more important…church or fun. The school shouldn’t have to bend it’s schedule for the minority group, and yet it should be allowed to if the majority rules, I think. There’s no violation of law if that’s what they decided to do.

Just like having a job that wants you to work on Sunday. You might have to find a different job if it violates your conscience.

People just have to make the decision as to what is more important in their kids’ lives. Consdering how evil some sports people are, and the fights kids see, the two don’t seem to mix at all anyway. What religion teaches a person to go cuss at a child for a sports issue? I do think that a place where folks are forced to go, like public schools should not have anything to do with any specific religion. If the schools can’t keep from having some activites on a religious day, so be it. It’s not like we don’t have anything else to worry about right now. In fact, the obsession with religion and sports, at the expense of our other issues needing attention may be why we are in the bad place we are. And we didn’t even get to the reality shows that teach back biting and winning at all costs. Play nice in the snows people. Stay safe.

I skip the church part. It’s just a fashion show anyway.

How silly! I think the school’s policy is proactive in the sense that it won’t allow for coaches/teams to schedule sporting events around a day typically set aside for worship, but to FORCE a squad full of willing parents and participants to stay home? I think that is a bit much. What lesson is this teaching the children? Work hard, but if someone wants to quit listening to his/her conscience your probably sorry out of luck. As a certified school administrator I can’t say definitively I could make that decision. I would have chosen to make personal phone calls to the parents to get their feelings about the tournament to see if they were okay with their children’s participation then make some calls to the board of education. THAT seems more like the right thing to do for kids.

Can we expect society to legislate everything? Do we no longer recognize that preplanning, resourcefulness, problem solving, alternative thinking are necessary ingredients in the household? If I’m Catholic, I can attend services on Saturday evening or Sunday morning. And in some parishes, the first Sunday morning service begins at 6:00 AM. ….the last one I think begins at noon Sunday. I can’t imagine that other faiths don’t have similar schedules that offer viable alternatives to their members. Wednesday/Thursday evening services for Protestants whose affiliation does not require strict Saturday evening/Sunday attendance.

I think we make time and arrange our schedules for those things that we consider to be important. And sometimes it may be easier to shift the blame in an effort to conceal our laziness. I think many parents today are plain LAZY!

Didn’t Jules Renard once remark that laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before we get tired? Maybe we are beginning to rest too much!

Ryan, Jules was making that remark to his wife Vivian after she told him she had a headache. His frustration has little to do with the serious problem of school districts/boards prescribing rules that “reach” far beyond their authority. If the school board allows kids to be part of the schools cheerleading squad, the board needs to re-think their rule about when kids can represent the school.

If they are not able to re-think the rule, they can at least learn about exceptions and make one.

Simple. “Faith” services are not an option for them. Housework isn’t either. So we clean on Sunday mornings. Come to Jesus!

I spoke with God a couple years ago and he was cool with me not going to church. He said if I want to just chill out and do nothing that would be cool. I figure if God is ok with not going to church then it must not be a problem.