Teacher Caught Secretly Showing Veggie Tales So Dad Destroys Her Career

Sounds like religious indoctrination to me.

As far as I know, Jesus did not tell his followers "It's okay to lie." So what's that teacher's excuse - "The devil made me do it"? If that teacher absolutely wants to show Christian cartoons, she should switch to a specifically Christian daycare or become a Sunday school teacher.

Forget about Veggie Tales and religion. Daycare rules say not to do XYZ, teacher ignores rules and does XYZ anyway then lies about it. Gets told again not to do XYZ, ignores warnings and again violates the rules. Teacher can not be trusted, and a teacher that can not be trusted should not be in charge of watching small children.

My blood is boiling. The satanic temple would take this battle on. Always standing up for secular rights.

Apparently, the teacher missed the episode where Junior Asparagus broke a plate, lied about what happened (Laura the Carrot did not break the plate you little liar), and had to learn why lying is wrong.

And how many hours of Mr. Rogers exist?. Far better.

That it's Veggies Tales is irrelevant, it's the lying. The teacher wasn't fired because people were upset by Veggies Tales. It was because they repeatedly lied about showing it, it being something wasn't appropriate to be shown in the first place. Would the people feeling guilty or blaming OP feel the same way if it was an animated kids show about Islam? After all, if it's "just a kids show" like Veggies Tales, like they're claiming, then they also wouldnt consider it indoctrination, right? F*ck off with their BS.

NTA, indoctrination is wrong period.

Never heard of this myself ,so was like what’s the issue ,then I got further down the comments ,oh right bloody religious lunatics again got it, nope I’d be up in arms to I loath religious cults down to what they seem to stand for , ie harm wars etc hypocrisy, religion is something kids should be able to decide themselves ,not even the parents should be raking if down their throats lets alone teachers , op did the right thing !

i think my family tried to show me veggie tales when i was two or three, and there was a scene that showed a cucumber girl swinging on a vine and singing. i vividly remember trying to process this weird thing on the tv and started crying because i couldn't figure out what was going on. i was never shown veggie tales ever again.

As an atheist, I have a few of the shows on DVD ... my favorite is "Jonah and the Whale" because it does touch upon mercy and compassion (something I feel is sorely missing among conservative Christians) ... that said, just like I'm against the forced indoctrination of religion in public schools via administration-led prayers, I am against forced indoctrination of religion via provider-led viewing of said programs ... meanwhile, I'm going to play "In the Belly of the Whale" later ...

NTA. Fired? Good. Rightfulliest firing over a cartoon at daycare I ever heard. That poisonous ideology gets pampered and shoved into various orifices already, and having your kids indoctrinated in daycare isn't exactly what anyone, including reasonable christians, wants, nor can I imagine it being allowed. But then again, if this is in the US, the Karens and Chads are gonna have it their ways or make a huge fuzz about it, one that might belittle the fuzz this is about by some orders of magnitude - and they are immune to second thoughts, shame, modesty and reason itself. NTA'est I've read so far!

As a business, one has the right to make their policies. As consumers and parents, people have the non-negotiable right to honesty as to what their children experience at school/daycare. If you feel you have to lie in order to do what you do, you're immediately wrong.

If you're going to show the kids VeggieTales you should at least only show them the silly songs... like why would you show them the main programming that's clearly Christian if you're not supposed to have any religious affiliation. Yes, I'm Christian, and yes, I love VeggieTales myself as its kinda nostalgic, but with anything, if you're showing it to people who don't know what they're getting into it can be VERY intrusive and can be an invasion of someone's personal beliefs and trust. The main show is for people simply trying to teach Christian values and beliefs, that stays where these beliefs need to be taught, don't teach em in an environment where people can't say no. If you haven't before, though, search up VeggieTales Silly Songs, no Christian themes in those and they're all hilarious. TL;DR of my rant - Let people know what you're showing them. People should make their own choices. No one's going to get to know religion through force.

I think the main issue is the constant lying. She will probably get a similar job somewhere else and spin so she was discriminated against

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Dad is TA