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Karen Pence Inspired an #ExposeChristianSchools Horror Story Hashtag
By Hemant Mehta, January 20, 2019
With Second Lady Karen Pence working at an anti-LGBTQ Christian school, its a good time to shine a spotlight on what students actually learn at these private schools. Sure, many of them never understand evolution and get a warped understanding of sex, but how bad can it really get?
The hashtag #ExposeChristianSchools, started by Exvangelical Christopher Stroop, offers a disturbing look at what many former students are saying.Let's also discuss how a friend of mine who passed the entrance exams to a very good christian school in Lagos, was told to her and her mother's face that she wasn't granted acceptance because her mother was a single mother. "No broken families".
#ExposeChristianSchools
TheGirlsLikeMe�⚡ (@DoreenGLM) January 19, 2019
I dont know if I can properly address all the ways to #exposechristianschools. But here it goes. History classes never reviewed the American Indians cultures or the timeline of the Civil Rights Movemenet. Yay white-washed history. �
Elizabeth Garcia (@dire_blizzard) January 19, 2019
#ExposeChristianSchools The bullying was intense, specifically for boys who weren't "manly". In the locker room, coaches would walk out when "soft" boys were getting towel-whipped in the shower or heads flushed in the commodes.
Smellin Coffee (@smellin_coffee) January 19, 2019
Alright, #ExposeChristianSchools is trending, and I have FEELINGS. Mandatory marriage & family class, (hetero pairs only, obv). Boys drew occupations out of hats (wife wasn't allowed to work). Boys wrote the budgets. I got a C & all I did was name the kids (also mandatory).
Brittney M. Morris *Add SLAY � on Goodreads* (@BrittneyMMorris) January 19, 2019
Had this same book given to me in 5th grade. so gross #ExposeChristianSchools
crobi lover of mermaids (@Crobisaur) January 19, 2019
#ExposeChristianSchools
When Steve Irwin died my fourth grade Bible teacher told us he went to hell
Christian (@csratcliff) January 19, 2019
When I promoted one of my students of color to the next grade, I was overridden because they wanted to spread out the children of color and there was already a POC in the class a grade above. They held my kid back and told his parents he didnt pass. #ExposeChristianSchools
k (@peasandkaris) January 19, 2019
In my biology class we werent allowed to say tailbone because of its evolution-based connotation. #ExposeChristianSchools
Ryan Aniceto (@ryanganiceto) January 19, 2019
From grades 5-8, we read weekly fake newspapers called Gods World News, highlighting the atrocities the outside world was engaging in. This is how I first learned what the ACLU was. Every story mentioned them specifically and harped on how evil they were #ExposeChristianSchools
Adrienne_ (@adrienne_) January 19, 2019
My Christian middle school praised the Birmingham, AL abortion clinic bombing in the late 1990's. (The school was in a suburb of Birmingham.) #ExposeChristianSchools #EmptyThePews
The_Metamorphasis (@The_Metamorphs) January 19, 2019
My sex education teacher (the same under-qualified teacher who taught geography and biology) told us that sex creates an unbreakable blood bond, which is A) false and B) convinced me that I was forever bound to my abuser. #ExposeChristianSchools
Melissa Stewart (@LissaStewartVB) January 19, 2019
When I told the principal of my Christian high school I wouldn't live at home anymore because I was being physically and sexually abused, he told me I was going to hell for disobedience to my family #ExposeChristianSchools
Jessica F (@teacher2library) January 19, 2019
Catholic school health class, fifth grade (I was a year younger than everyone else), our principal told us that our dead loved ones could see everything we did from heaven, including sex and masturbation. #ExposeChristianSchools
Sage Young (@sageyoungest) January 18, 2019
In elementary school we were taught that non-Christians were incapable of real love.#ExposeChristianSchools #ChristianAltFacts
Chris the very original name (@rckymtnapostate) January 18, 2019
We were repeatedly told that going to a Christian school was a privilege. That if we went to public school, we'd become drug addicted pregnant athiests because the Liberal agenda was out to get the youth #ExposeChristianSchools
Skylar Christian (@SkylarEllenC) January 18, 2019
There are more than 20,000 tweets where those came from.
To be fair, some of them are positive. Some people are using the hashtag to share good experiences they had at these places which is kind of shouting #NotAllChristianSchools. No ones saying every school is like this, but the problem is pervasive enough that literally thousands of people have similar horror stories to share. People like Pences defenders should listen instead of interrupting. Maybe theyd finally learn something useful.
rurallib
(63,196 posts)as a graduate of the catholic system, I have always (well since @ the grade) that separating groups out of society is bad policy.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)I learned a great many valuable lessons... nearly all of them unintended, I am sure.
MineralMan
(147,575 posts)Lessons learned are lessons learned. Intended or unintended.
I suspect you were too clever for them.
MineralMan
(147,575 posts)By segregating the sexes, you skip all of that thinking about sexual things by the children. There's plenty of time for that later, see...
MineralMan
(147,575 posts)Then, if a student referred to it as the coccyx, he or she would have been scolded for using a word that had "cock" in it. The proper term is "those useless little bones at the lower end of the spine." Same reason religious school students continue to use the word "peepee" and "little button." All those proper names for one's "private parts" are dirty, dirty, dirty, and will get your knuckles cracked by Sister Mary Elizabeth's ruler.