AlGore
Imagine it like this. What would your response be if Climate Change advocates and environmentalists were given carte blanche as School Chaplains to instruct and provide care to your children?

Some would be very good and may not use their position to force climate change on anyone, but some won't.

See the problem?

We can all be biased and this is why religion should not be part of any public school program IMO. That is your role as a parent not the role of a school chaplain.

There are already school counsellors to deal with personal issues or problems students might face and while they all bring their own personalities, biases and prejudices with them they are not their on a proselytizing premise.

"To the crimes against humanity, it is incumbant upon us as oath takers, advocates of neutrality, professionals and ethicists to note one more. The intentionally malignant anthropomorphism of "science". Science is the vehicle that set us free and we owe our global cousins everything we have gained - indeed *as* we gain. To demand that affluent society must now see it as a lumbering, monstrous, "evil" and sentient agent with the single aim of polluting human morale is peurile, ideological, mischievous and markedly in error. We are agents of morality far, far before and because we are agents of evidence."
- Paul Gallagher

pelican wrote: "There are already school counsellors to deal with personal issues or problems students might face and while they all bring their own personalities, biases and prejudices with them they are not their on a proselytizing premise."

Dear pelican,

I wish your statement was true. There are not enough school counsellors to take of the needs. It is estimated that one in five students have mental problems which the chaplains are not qualified to deal with. There have been cases where school counsellors have been replaced by chaplains because the chaplains are cheaper.

People who might be good school counsellors are not training for it since the employment opportunities are not there.

McREal

'I oppose ga ga and Kylie as much as I oppose Chaplains and Imans. I oppose slutty kids, slutty teens, and slutty adults (of both sexes).'
Its a pity a few more of the secular high priests and politicians don't at least share some your values that originates from Scripture.

You are probably right david f. The resources for special needs is also lacking.

That is why it is a shame that the money spent on Chaplains can't be used more wisely.

Noooooo! The meteors have struck the planet. We have all these goulish, half witted, Bible bashers let loose on our kids without anyone bothering to check whether they secretely have a Bible stashed up their jumpers. They have managed to suck the brains out of our kids and turn them into non thinkers, and....
Honestly... I have been tracking this blog and the contributions by 'rationalists', and I've got to say that I haven't seen much in it that appears rational. If you're going to claim to be rationalists, then I think that by definition, you have to be a tad rational. And that requires you to be knowledgable on the subject upon which you are seeking to be rational. I don't see much knowledge either.
A question: Is it any less rational to believe in something bigger than you than to propound fear based on hysteria.
I suspect that one of the reasons why people of a faith struggle to engage people of 'reason' and vica versa is because both spheres are addressing equally important but different issues.
About now, some of you might be wondering... is he one of us, or one of them? I'm a bit of both... happily!!