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12-year-old Jordan Wooley, the Texas girl who spoke out after her teacher made her say that God is a myth, says she has been bullied and told to kill herself after media coverage of the incident.

It all began when Jordan's teacher assigned a quiz asking students at West Memorial Junior High School in Katy, Texas, to label statements as “fact, assertion, or opinion.”

Among the statements were “America is the most free country on Earth” and “there is a God.” After Jordan labeled the latter as a “fact,” her teacher told her to deny God or get an "F."

The Katy Independent School District denied the incident ever happened and claimed no one could verify Jordan's story. But that didn't stop her from calling the board members "liars" and asking for an apology in a statement on Monday.

After the story was covered extensively in the media, some people have called Jordan terrible names and told her to kill herself, she explained to Clayton Morris on "Fox and Friends Weekend."

"I've lost a few of my close friends, but that's what will happen," she said.

Despite that, Jordan said she's not backing down.

"I'm going to keep going until something gets done, and until something gets done, I'm not going to stop."

Watch more above and see Jordan's statement to the school board below.
 
Tough one,you can't prove God,neither disprove God.but the teacher should have staTed that.
 
the teacher had zero business bringing religion into a government school .. the teacher should be fired
 
reba said:
the teacher had zero business bringing religion into a government school .. the teacher should be fired
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Didn't see that,arguable as an assertion.you can disprove a fact.fact electrons,in a form of a half inch wave length at a specified frequency are being used to relay my response. We can test that.I didn't use science to come to christ.see my point.I agree the teacher is wrong
 
Deny God or get an F. That is only something a demon would directly say. satan sure does work though people.
 
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Without more facts about the incident, I can't really judge what happened, but I do tend to give the teachers the benefit of the doubt in most cases. Kids will lie. If I had to make a guess, I would suspect that this kid is lying.
 
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Without more facts about the incident, I can't really judge what happened, but I do tend to give the teachers the benefit of the doubt in most cases. Kids will lie. If I had to make a guess, I would suspect that this kid is lying.
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I guess no witness makes the whole thing invalid, only God knows the truth.

I disagree with you about giving benifit of doubt. Adults are just as big liars. This world is a mess and its not the childrens fault I know that much, its corrupt lying adults.

I wonder how many tell there kids santa is real.
 
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No matter how you look at it the sitution stinks. On the one hand if the teacher said that, it's a very horrible thing to say, and puts the teacher, the school, and the board in a bad position. The best thing they can do is deny it ever happened. On the other hand if it isn't true the little girl is minipulating a lot of people, trying to get attention, get a rise out of them, or actively trying to get people in trouble.

The issue I have though is that there's a paper trail. If it was on a test, then there's proof it occured and can be evidenced by the test itself as well as the classmates that also took the test. But if there's no paper that shows the test, it sounds like the girl is making it up. (Potentially the tests are with the teacher to grade, and then thrown away when it was made a big deal over, but that's the best argument for it that I can think of.).

In a way I hope that I'm wrong and the girl isn't actively trying to get the teacher in trouble. But on the other hand the other possibility is worse or almost worse. People saying she should kill herself and that she'd get an f if she didn't reject God.

It doesn't feel right to me though. I'm suspicious it's made up, and then grew when some people didn't believe her and so she says they told her to kill herself.
 
After working in a school for a few years i wil never take the word of a teacher... while knowing most kids lie..
 
I understand what some of you are saying, but I think we have to be very careful before we ruin a teacher's career based on nothing more than the word of student. It makes for a poor witness if it later turns out the teacher was innocent and we Christians get a reputation for unjustly persecuting people. I'm just saying let's be sure we know all the facts and not just what some 14 year old kid claims. Innocent until proven guilty.
 
When I went to school teachers had authority and scared me i was to afraid to lie or I go the principles office and get the cane whiped around my buttocks, 5 lashes.
 
Agree anti .. we are just discussing this we are not in control of the persons job..
How about the kid being innocent until proven guilty..
 
here is some School double talk on the issue

"Yesterday, October 26, at the end of the school day, two West Memorial Junior High parents contacted the school's principal to share their concern over a classroom activity that they felt questioned students' religious beliefs. The school principal immediately responded to the parents by informing them that she would investigate and meet with the teacher the following morning. At the conclusion of the investigation today, the principal determined that the classroom activity included an item that was unnecessary for achieving the instructional standard. The activity, which was intended to encourage critical thinking skills and dialogue by engaging students in an exercise wherein they identified statements as fact, opinion, or common assertion was not intended to question or challenge any student's religious beliefs as reported by some media outlets.

The teacher is distraught by this incident, as some commentary has gone as far as to vilify her without knowing her, her Christian faith, or the context of the classroom activity. Still, this does not excuse the fact that this ungraded activity was ill-conceived and because of that, its intent had been misconstrued. As a result, the activity will no longer be used by the school, and appropriate personnel action will be taken. The school regrets any misconceptions that may have resulted from this teacher-developed classroom activity and assures its school community that the religious beliefs of all students and staff are welcomed and valued at Memorial Junior High."


http://abc13.com/education/teacher-reportedly-tells-student-god-doesnt-exist/1054271/
 
The problem is that the teacher's name is already being dragged through the mud on national television.

We had a similar case here in the system where I use to be involved with the Parents/Teachers Association. It was several years back and we were fortunately able to keep it from spreading beyond the local news. Anyway, a junior high school student accused his teacher of refusing to allow him to privately and quietly read his Bible after completing his assignments. The local churches went nuts and angry citizens with pitchforks were demanding the teacher's head on a pike. Long story short, it finally came out that the kid was lying his butt off. He was already in in-school suspension for misbehavior, and the rules say no outside reading or distractions allowed. He was not being prohibited from reading the Bible specifically, rather the teacher was doing her job and keeping him on task on his school work, and the little liar made up the story to get back at the teacher.

Unfortunately, the damage was done and the innocent teacher finally ended up having to transfer to a new system, and the local churches were left looking mean-spirited and ignorant just the way the atheist left wants us to look.
 
antipasta said:
The problem is that the teacher's name is already being dragged through the mud on national television.

We had a similar case here in the system where I use to be involved with the Parents/Teachers Association. It was several years back and we were fortunately able to keep it from spreading beyond the local news. Anyway, a junior high school student accused his teacher of refusing to allow him to privately and quietly read his Bible after completing his assignments. The local churches went nuts and angry citizens with pitchforks were demanding the teacher's head on a pike. Long story short, it finally came out that the kid was lying his butt off. He was already in in-school suspension for misbehavior, and the rules say no outside reading or distractions allowed. He was not being prohibited from reading the Bible specifically, rather the teacher was doing her job and keeping him on task on his school work, and the little liar made up the story to get back at the teacher.

Unfortunately, the damage was done and the innocent teacher finally ended up having to transfer to a new system, and the local churches were left looking mean-spirited and ignorant just the way the atheist left wants us to look.
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I'm thinking of the poor christian marine thar was penalized for her posting verses.she was a poor marine.the ruling is a bad one.she should have been charged on another incident.she was asked as others did take offense to remove the bible verse on a computer.a right Yes,but she was no saint.
 
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