While I was teaching at a large urban high school (2000+ students) in the mid-eighties, one of my students was involved in an accident. The driver had been drinking. All three students died in the accident. We were all in shock the next day. I tried my best to comfort the students in my classes, but I felt like my hands were tied. It’s not easy being a Christian teacher in a public school. I wanted to tell them how they could be sure that they would go to Heaven when they died. Since then, I have joined Christian Educators Association International, which reaffirmed that I have limited freedom of speech in the classroom. Now I encourage my students to come by after school when I am free to express my beliefs. Times have really changed. I was the student council chaplain at the same high school in the sixties. We were allowed to have student-led prayer at the beginning of each day.
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