My daughters, Z and A, were sitting in the hallway sorting their jewelry (is this normal? Someone help me out here.), and as I came up the stairs I overheard this conversation:
A: You're not allowed to talk about Jesus at school.
Z: Why?
A: Because it causes fights. At least in my classroom.
Z: What do people fight about?
A: Well, Sophia will say that the world started when a giant mountain broke down and then made the earth. And then Jacob will say, no, that's not what happened. God created the earth. Then I will tell Jacob, we don't talk about that here, this is school not Awanas.
Z: Does Jacob go to Awanas?
A: No, but I just mean that you talk about Jesus at Awanas, not school.
I walked up later and explained that in this country we have Freedom of Speech, which means that you can talk about whatever you want in school (except hurting people or blowing up schools, that sort of thing). And that this meant that our friends (like Jacob) are also allowed to talk about Jesus at school. And Sophia can talk about how the world was made when a mountain broke down.
Honestly, though, Sophia. The world was made when a mountain broke down? zWhat the heck?
Apparently the Mountain ran out of gas??
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