jiggy68

Hugh: I'm a miserable presence and I like to make other people miserable too if I possibly can.

I wonder if I'm actually Hugh.

My wife has worked as an elementary school teacher both in public and Catholic schools for 20 years. We are actually atheists. She says the religious schools are far and away a much easier environment with more involved parents and better behaved kids. I find it odd that a religious daycare for you is the most stressful. What exactly makes that environment more terrible than others?

Really? That's bizarre. At the Catholic school she works at now they have a halloween party and the school lets out early for halloween. The kids are encouraged to come to school in costumes. Harry Potter is in the library and every kid that reads that book (because it is so big compared to the others) gets extra points. The Obama thing I can understand, they're right wing parents mostly, but a lot of the teachers are lefties, like my wife and at this particular school they don't care. I guess it depends on how religiously wacko the parents are as well as the supervisors and owners. And how wacko lefty the teachers might be. religious nut supervisors and parents don't mix well with leftist tatted up sjws. But I still find it interesting that you find these christian schools more of a problem to work with than a different school. Have you worked in a special needs school? I would think that would be the most difficult.

Maybe. Most religious people I know are Catholics. I think the number of "wacko evangelists" are way overinflated. I live in the Bible Belt and don't know anyone like what people are describing in this thread.

I understand that, but as an athiest living in the Bible Belt, a place where these people should be plentiful, I just don't see these crazed fanatics. I actually only see them on TV. I can see someone living in LA San Fran or NY thinking this type of thought is prevalent in the Bible Belt because of the Media. I know they exist, I just think their numbers are inflated by media attention. I may live in a pocket where there just aren't any.

Edited to add: I think the Catholic Church benefits greatly from a centralized organization. Evangelists and Muslims don't have that. I believe that's a reason for the wacko fringes.