Teacher

[CupOfWater]

Hello.

Since we got a new religions teacher, I've noticed something about her. It's frankly quite annoying. She believes in healing and other weird stuff associated to that like being able to shift energies in your body with the power of your mind, and that cancer is energy balls.

Does anyone else have teachers like this, teachers that spout nonsense in the classes? This is my first meeting with a teacher that talks about stuff like this, my teachers beliefs have never been pushed on me like this before, and I don't know what to do. At the moment I'm just ignoring what she's saying and hoping nobody in the classroom actually believes what she's saying.

Yet, I'm glad that she isn't pushing her religious beliefs on us. Until now, we've had about Islam and Buddhism, and it is not possible to notice any hate against these religions, it's almost as she believes in both of them. I like that. A fresh and clean presentation, void of personal beliefs.
Although, the chapter about christianity is yet to come, and I wonder what kind of things she will be saying about that religion, as she is most likely christian.

 

[FireballsFromSpace]

"religions teacher"

"spout nonsense in the classes"

I think it's in the job description.

I had an RE teacher who was blind. It was only many years later that it occured to me how apt this was.

 

[TheFearmonger]

I had a teacher that was pro christian, and went under the guise of the class "bible as lit./history." It was basically a sell for religion. Being the fundamentalist I was, I made the highest grades he had ever seen a student make. Yep, that is how subjective it was.

 

[nemesiss]

you could always send a letter of concern to your school about you questioning thats teachers teaching abilities.
its your right to have a teacher who does its job correctly. in general, both the school and the students will profit from proper teachers.

We had done that at school once when we had a teacher who couldn't teach properly.
the school didn't believe us at all even with all the complaints from us. eventually the buckled a bit and let another teacher attend his classes to see if we were over reacting... the teacher couldn't undertand what the guy was teaching, while it was the same material they should be teaching.

 

[borrofburi]

Can't find the original, but:


In short, your teacher is an authority figure, some people in your class will believe anything said by an authority figure.

 

[xchillx42]

Just tell her to suck on your energy balls.

 

[nasher168]

Until now, we've had about Islam and Buddhism, and it is not possible to notice any hate against these religions, it's almost as she believes in both of them. I like that. A fresh and clean presentation, void of personal beliefs.

Think that, but with a sensible, agnostic teacher. That's what my RS classes were like.
How ironic that a supposedly christian nation has a more balanced, secular view of religion whilst the US-a supposedly secular nation-has a biased outlook.

 

[rulezdaworld0]

I had a real fundie christian for my RE class at school. She even made a list compiling all the reasons why people should believe in god (needless to say, they were typical, debunked arguments). Although I did think of saying somethimething to the school, even though I left a few years ago, but then someone else called her out, and she left (before they could fire her).

 

[creamcheese]

I have never taken a class on religion, nor were they offered at the public schools in my region. I think they might get laughed down around here...

That teacher sounds like some people I know, only they aren't religious per se, just.... new age? I guess that's what you might call it. [I usually call it: Cultists-without-a-cult]

 

[Jorick]

Hello.

Since we got a new religions teacher, I've noticed something about her. It's frankly quite annoying. She believes in healing and other weird stuff associated to that like being able to shift energies in your body with the power of your mind, and that cancer is energy balls.

Does anyone else have teachers like this, teachers that spout nonsense in the classes? This is my first meeting with a teacher that talks about stuff like this, my teachers beliefs have never been pushed on me like this before, and I don't know what to do. At the moment I'm just ignoring what she's saying and hoping nobody in the classroom actually believes what she's saying.

Yet, I'm glad that she isn't pushing her religious beliefs on us. Until now, we've had about Islam and Buddhism, and it is not possible to notice any hate against these religions, it's almost as she believes in both of them. I like that. A fresh and clean presentation, void of personal beliefs.
Although, the chapter about christianity is yet to come, and I wonder what kind of things she will be saying about that religion, as she is most likely christian.

Well, unless she's pushing her ideas onto you, there's not much you can do. Maybe talk to her after class/during office hours and explain your discomfort. Most teachers will take stuff like this seriously, although that's not at all a sure thing.

If it gets bad, ask other students if they feel like she's pushing beliefs on you or not teaching the material fairly. In that case, talk to her as a group and request that she keep her bias out of the classroom. If she keeps it up, take it to whoever is the next level up (department head, for instance).

Those are pretty much your only options, so far as I see it. Well, those or ignore it. If she isn't being biased to too nutty, don't worry about it. A non-biased religion teacher is a rare commodity, make use of it.