« Early Weekend Free Thread
Ostrich Syndrome »

I kind of accidentally stumbled upon my high school website (I didn’t know one existed). All of the senior pictures of all alumni from 1958 on are posted online, so I’m not giving out the URL. However, I noticed a couple of things that are interesting. I note that what we called shop is now “Building Trades,” and what we called home ec is now “Family & Consumer Sciences/Science,” so I guess even a very rural, very conservative area isn’t completely immune from trends. The FFA (Future Farmers of America) and FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) are still going strong, but there’s no FHA listed (Future Homemakers of America–is that too politically incorrect, I wonder?)

Speaking of politically incorrect, somebody had better call the ACLU. The FCA site–ON the state server and the SAME domain as the PUBLIC high school site, and linked FROM the PUBLIC high school site says:

For more than 46 years, FCA has been focused on one purpose . . .
“Present to athletes and coaches, and all whom they influence, the challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, serving Him in their relationships and in the fellowship of the church.”

Statement of Faith
FCA -

  1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
  2. We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  3. We believe in the deity of Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
  4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men (women) regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
  5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
  6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
  7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wow. Don’t they know that’s not culturally sensitive? Don’t they know that things like that are imposing their religious beliefs on others? Don’t they know that schools get sued for things like that? Do you suppose they still put up a creche downtown over Christmas, or that the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes are still on prominent display in the school hallway?

This entry was posted by rightwingprof on May 4, 2007 at 5:32 am under Conservatism. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Eric S. says:

    It’s not FHA anymore. In keeping with changing from home ec. to family and consumer sciences, FHA is now FCCLA, which stands for Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America. FHA is definitely politically incorrect for high schools these days.

    May 4, 2007, 1:37 pm

  2. rightwingprof says:

    Eric S. on May 4, 2007 at 1:37 pm said:

    It’s not FHA anymore. In keeping with changing from home ec. to family and consumer sciences, FHA is now FCCLA, which stands for Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America. FHA is definitely politically incorrect for high schools these days.

    Ah. I was right, then. It was the FHA when I was in school.

    May 4, 2007, 1:50 pm