Public school teacher: "You belong in Hell" if you don't accept Jesus

A Kerny High School history teacher told his class that if they didn't accept Jesus, they would go to hell:

A Kearny High School student has accused ahistory teacher of crossing the line between teaching andpreaching - and he's got the tapes to prove it.

Sixteen-year-old junior Matthew LaClair says he wasshocked when history teacher David Paszkiewicz, who is alsoa Baptist preacher in town, spent the first week lecturingstudents more about Heaven and Hell than the colonies andConstitution.

"I would never have suspected something like thiswent on in a public school," LaClair said yesterday.

He said Paszkiewicz told students that if they didn'taccept Jesus, "you belong in Hell." He alsodismissed as unscientific the theories of evolution and the"Big Bang."

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Here is the transcript and audio.

If you want to preach what you perceive to be the word of the Lord, do it at church.  Or, get a job at a private school.

Comments

[Bill]

After listening to the entire audio, it's quite clear the teacher was set up by a number of smart-ass kids.

All they were trying to do was throw out entrapment questions and provoke him to express his personal views while being recorded in secret. They try to make it look like he was forcing his opinions on them, while in fact it was an open dialogue initiated and directed by the "students-in-the-know".

I think it shows Matthew LaClair's double standard - if someone had recorded LaClair without his knowledge, while he planned his "Ha-ha, real-funny" juvenile setup. I'm sure he'd express plenty of his own personal opinions (about all kinds of things) quite differently than how he did when he came to the local media to report the teacher's "crime" and the student's "innocent listening/captive audience".

How often do homosexuals, flag-burners, atheists, etc., push their beliefs upon students .... it happens every school day in many places in public schools.

This is a joke to think this "proof" is exposing anything.

[The Mexican]

You provoke interest, why lump homosexuals, "flag-burners," and atheists in such the way you did? In what respect does this elucidate your points?

Push their beliefs? You know, the ones you mentioned are a minority in this society, fighting for rights. The evangelicals have no groundwork to hem and haw and stop-start such rights and feign the underdog. They ARE the majority.

[George]

ha. yeah, everyday those flag burners are out in schools pushing their damn flag burning agenda! good point.

And homosexuals are all over schools too trying to...um, *be accepted*. It's maddening, isn't it?

[Administrator: Todd]

I have been studying for my GRE test on and off all day, and have kept checking where this conversation has been heading. lol It's humorous!

Really though, with little disrespect Bill, I want to know specifically HOW flag burners promote their agenda at school? I'm a college student myself, and would like to know what you mean by that.

[The Mexican]

Admin Todd, are you just studying the GRE in general or is your study subject-specific?

[Administrator: Todd]

It's the general GRE exam, although I have a few friends that will be taking specific subject tests.

For political science, they just make you take the general one -- which is good, cuz I don't think I could take much more of this. lol It's a huge ordeal. Plus, it's snowing now, so it should be fun getting to the testing center.

[The Mexican]

Yeah, I definitely know what you mean. I have to take the GRE and MAT tests, and it's not going to be very fun.

[The Mexican]

Also, if future plans happen, I may end up taking the MCAT several years from now.

[Administrator: Todd]

The MCAT is hard, so I hear. Good luck with that. I took the GRE yesterday. Being in the social sciences, you can imagine how pointless I think the math section is....yet political science departments in graduate schools still look at it. I wish they changed that.

[The Mexican]

Yeah, I'm not too fond of mathematics, only statistics and some chemistry courses. I abhor calculus courses. I think the reason I loathe it so much is that math became too involved and into itself after geometry. I'm going into both psychology and psychiatry, so it's what I'm going to need to know to make it.