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As an Atheist Jew I would be furious if my classroom were forced by law to display any version of The Ten Commandments other than the one I have chosen to reject. Also, it's a classroom. They're supposed to teach the kids to respect and to cite original sources.
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As someone who had their 2nd grade public school teacher, daughter of the superintendent of my school district, try to hold a nativity play with me as Joseph...and she cast me as him because I was the one Jewish kid in my grade and it somehow made sense to her... Yeah, just outrageous.
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My school didn't do a nativity play (I would hope no public school would, but who knows) but I still remember sitting in the hallway while the rest of the class practiced its Christmas carols.
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That happened in 7th grade French, I asked to be excused, the teacher yelled at me after class, I forgot about it(because relatively minor), and at one reunion, someone went up to me and wanted to tell me how brave they thought I had been at the time.