Tennessee Bible history teacher proselytized, made antisemitic comments, mom says

[Jilly_in_VA]

The mother of a Tennessee middle-schooler claims a class on the Bible as literature included Christian proselytizing and comments offensive to Jews and other non-Christians, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.

Juniper Russo posted to Facebook that she withdrew her eighth-grader from the class after the teacher wrote an English translation of the Hebrew name for God on the whiteboard and told students, “If you want to know how to torture a Jew, make them say this out loud,” according to the post.

“This name is traditionally not spoken out loud, and is traditionally only written in the Torah,” Russo wrote. “My daughter felt extremely uncomfortable hearing a teacher instruct her peers on ‘how to torture a Jew’ and told me when she came home from school that she didn’t feel safe in the class.”

Hamilton County Schools issued a statement saying the district is investigating a compliant about its Bible History course and will “take appropriate steps based on the findings of that review.”

Russo said she has also reported the incident to the Anti-Defamation League.

Russo wrote on Facebook that her daughter enrolled in the Bible class because other electives were not accessible to her because of a disability. Her daughter was uncomfortable answering questions on assignments such as, “Do you read the Bible at home?” because she did not want to be singled out as Jewish, Russo wrote.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-bible-history-teacher-made-antisemitic-comments-mom-says-rcna15221
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There should be other electives available to students with disabilities.

[kwolf68]

1. Here we go

This is what THEY mean by putting Jesus back into schools.

Hope this girl can get the hell out of that class and this teacher reminded that she's not a preacher.

[VarryOn]

2. As a Christian, I've never understood why any Christian would be antisemitic...

JESUS WAS A JEW!

And I guess these antisemitic "Christians" skip Genisis 12.

[Initech]

3. Yeah that's like:

Tell me you've never read the Bible without telling me that you've never read the Bible.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. I've probably read the Bible

more than this stupid teacher. And part of it in the original too, because in my Hebrew class at UW-Madison, we read Genesis starting in mid-first semester. Why? Because, per my instructor, the language is pretty simple. And I've read through the entire Bible three times, on three different plans, which I bet this teacher has not. She is an idiot.