Teaching Religion

In public schools where there is a wide range of different religions, a teacher has to be cautious about what he or she says because it might offend someone of a specific religion. A teacher and students within a classroom must have respect each individuals' religion because, you don't want a student to be embarrassed of his or her religion, because then that class is putting their classmate in a unstable state. Each individual has the freedom to choose and express his or her religion, and share their ideas about their specific religion. I read the article Holocaust role-playing misses mark, which talked about a tenth grade teacher who assigned a project where some students would play the role as Jewish people in a concentration camp, and other students would be the Nazi's at the concentration camp. During class the students who played the role of a Nazi would bother, and molest the Jewish role playing students, in order to show that the Nazi's were rude and treated the Jews badly. This is an unnecessary activity, because Tenth grade students clearly understand that the Holocaust was completely inhumane, and don't need an activity to show that the Jews were being mistreated. The students' should rather be learning why did this horrific event occur, how did it take place, what events lead up to the Holocaust, and what other countries could have done in order to help the victims. If a student or teacher is insensitive to religion, many emotions may arise in class which may lead to disagreements and arguments taking place. There is always those few individuals who believe that their religion is the best religion, and the only correct religion, which is incorrect because there isn't a correct religion. Religion is a very sensitive topic, which must be handled with care and if it isn't many controversies may arise. Some people take religion so seriously that, the revolve their lives around their religion.