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	empy 2007-10-10 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	In upper secondary, my psychology teacher had also majored in theology and tended to give everything a heavily Christian bent. Argh. Then again, I had the best maths teacher. In the spring, he'd start every second lesson with "You know, the weather's great. Let's go outside and play [the Finnish equivalent of] baseball.". (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cygnia
2007-10-10 08:04 pm UTC (link)

In upper secondary, my psychology teacher had also majored in theology and tended to give everything a heavily Christian bent. Argh.

Oh, I had one of those too for a high school psych teacher (even down to the theology major). Even though our book didn't list it, he kept insisting that homosexuality was one of the sexual deviances and would mark our papers wrong if we neglected to put it down. Gotta love Catholic High Schools...:p

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	brennalarose 2007-10-10 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	I would've flunked that class so hard. I was raised in the wild South by gay men and crossdressers. OTOH, I knew more about makeup by twelve than most of my class. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ruffwriter 2007-10-11 02:34 am UTC (link)
	... that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting novel. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-11 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	You're right, it does! NaNo, here I come! (Reply to this)(Parent)

empy
2007-10-10 08:15 pm UTC (link)

The kicker here is that my school wasn't Catholic. :P Finnish schools are sort of Lutheran-by-default, which only really shows in that they assume every student is Lutheran as well. As an atheist, I used to ask all kinds of difficult questions and question his Christian angles. I know, I was terrrible.

Even though our book didn't list it, he kept insisting that homosexuality was one of the sexual deviances and would mark our papers wrong if we neglected to put it down.
I remember my teacher hurriedly storming through that chapter in class, probably to avoid having to answer my inevitable questions.

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	seiberwing 2007-10-11 05:17 am UTC (link)
	One of my fondest memories from AP Psychology was the question section at the end of the "gay marriage: good or bad" part of the debating assignment. I countered "well, gay sex is not natural" with examples of oral sex, bondages, S&M... I've never seen a teacher dismiss a class so fast. Lovely woman, but I think I scared her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-11 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	You're my hero! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2007-10-11 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	Fandom has corrupted me horribly and led to the majority of my extended sex education. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chibikaijuu 2007-10-12 02:40 am UTC (link)
	You too? (It's very, very entertaining to be a 21-year-old virgin who hangs out with people who are a) generally a decade or two (or three!) older than I am and b) on the weird artsy side of things, and yet be the only one who doesn't blink when some slightly off-the-wall kink is mentioned.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

ru_debega
2007-10-11 02:36 am UTC (link)

See, I went to a Catholic K8 school AND an all-girl's Catholic High School and both of them managed to keep separate science and religion. We had Religion class and that was about where all the narrow-mindedness and bigotry stayed.

I was even taught Biology by a (very) old nun who declared that if we didn't want to learn evolution we could bloody well drop out and go to another school, which put a cap on all the girls hoping to get out of it by claiming OMGZ IT'S AGAINST MY RELIGION. When a nun says you need to know the theory of evolution, you can't really argue.

Of course I still hated both schools (Religion class + interminable Mass days + having to do a project in my senior year about the evils of abortion) but srsly, if a NUN can do it, some crazy vegan nutjob oughtta be able to put aside his beliefs long enough to teach some goddamned art.

Except, yanno, his art is terrible.

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	brennalarose 2007-10-11 03:24 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my god. Where was this school? My daughters when I have them are going there! Though I might pull them out before the abortion thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amymccabe 2007-10-12 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	Aside from religion class (which was always really weird) my Catholic school was pretty good at separating religion and science. I had a similar experience in biology. She said, "If you don't want to believe this, that's fine, but you still need to learn this to pass the New York State regents." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

jerel
2007-10-13 04:37 pm UTC (link)

Hey, even Pope John Paul believed in evolution. Which is pretty much saying it's true (remember, this was an organization that took a couple of centuries to believe the Earth went around the sun.) He said there was enough scientific evidence to prove that animals adapted to their environment. Except things don't change into other things, i.e., we don't come from monkeys. Still, for the pontiff, that ain't half bad.

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	amymccabe 2007-10-12 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	flails icon love (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jerel 2007-10-13 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	What year was this? AFAIK, the DSM stopped listing homosexuality as deviant behaviour in the 70s. Of course, it is Catholic school, so they probably didn't get the memo. (I work for a Catholic high school, and I think there's a few teachers who didn't get the memo about quite a few things.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cygnia 2007-10-13 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	That would be 1993 (Holy Name Central Catholic, Worcester, MA). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2007-10-10 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	That's interesting. My philosophy teacher had Priest's papers or something like that (though he wasn't a priest, or maybe he had a degree in theology, I forget), but he kept his faith (if he had any, my ignorance kinda proves my point) separate from his teachings. And I'm an atheist but haven't excluded the possibility of studying theology. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amyheartssiroc 2007-10-11 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Was he a lay minister? (Reply to this)(Parent)

okalintu
2007-10-10 10:54 pm UTC (link)

In upper secondary, my psychology teacher had also majored in theology and tended to give everything a heavily Christian bent.

So did mine. He also mentioned (several times) certain facts from his personal life. Like, for example, that he thought breast milk tasted ok and that he and his wife had indeed been chaste until they married. I'm not sure how I managed to look at him after all those delightful bits of OMFGTMI. *shudders*

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	amymccabe 2007-10-12 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	that he thought breast milk tasted ok OMG! I was eating when I read that...at work! wipes monitor (Reply to this)(Parent)

	velvet_mace 2007-10-11 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Man, the only truly wtf crazy teacher story I've got is from college. Where one of my german teachers apparently went off his meds, got mad and started picking up desks and throwing them at his students. He was mad. We got the hell out. Next class he was much better and apologized. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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