jimnyc
02-27-2020, 03:17 PM
I would have told them all to buzz off, but kids are more intimidated at that age. Any teacher should be aware of what they are and why folks have them on Wednesday, even if they aren't believers. And of not, someone in the office should know. I can only assume she did this to be spiteful.
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A 4th-grader’s Teacher Forced Him to Wash off His Ashes after Mass on Ash Wednesday
The 9-year-old had no idea that when he went to school that day that his teacher would tell him the cross on his forehead was inappropriate and make him wash the ashes off.
William McLeod who goes to a Utah public school was prepared for questions about the cross he wore on his forehead for Ash Wednesday, but what he didn’t know was that his teacher would make him wash the ashes off in front of all his peers.
“It was really bad,” he told CNN. “I went to the office and I was crying and I felt like I was in trouble.”
William had gone to school directly after an Ash Wednesday Mass at his Catholic Church. The cross was placed on his forehead as a mark of the beginning of Lent, the Christian season of preparation before Easter. The purpose is to set aside time for reflection of Jesus Christ – His suffering and His sacrifice, His life, death, burial and resurrection.
William’s grandmother told him he didn’t have to get ashes if he didn’t want to and if he left them on his forehead at school, people would likely ask him what it was for.
“People are going to look at you like you’ve got dirt on your head,” his grandma told him, “and that’s OK. You explain this is Ash Wednesday and you’re Catholic. And he goes, ‘OK, I want to wear them.’”
She had no idea that just hours after that conversation she would be getting a call from the school’s principal who told her that William’s teacher had asked him what was on his forehead and he told her it as an ash cross for Ash Wednesday. The teacher told him it was “inappropriate…so take it off.”
“I was furious,” she told CNN. “This is who we are. This is part of our life as Catholics.”
Rest - https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2019/03/4th-graders-teacher-forced-wash-off-ashes-mass-ash-wednesday?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=PBWY
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A 4th-grader’s Teacher Forced Him to Wash off His Ashes after Mass on Ash Wednesday
The 9-year-old had no idea that when he went to school that day that his teacher would tell him the cross on his forehead was inappropriate and make him wash the ashes off.
William McLeod who goes to a Utah public school was prepared for questions about the cross he wore on his forehead for Ash Wednesday, but what he didn’t know was that his teacher would make him wash the ashes off in front of all his peers.
“It was really bad,” he told CNN. “I went to the office and I was crying and I felt like I was in trouble.”
William had gone to school directly after an Ash Wednesday Mass at his Catholic Church. The cross was placed on his forehead as a mark of the beginning of Lent, the Christian season of preparation before Easter. The purpose is to set aside time for reflection of Jesus Christ – His suffering and His sacrifice, His life, death, burial and resurrection.
William’s grandmother told him he didn’t have to get ashes if he didn’t want to and if he left them on his forehead at school, people would likely ask him what it was for.
“People are going to look at you like you’ve got dirt on your head,” his grandma told him, “and that’s OK. You explain this is Ash Wednesday and you’re Catholic. And he goes, ‘OK, I want to wear them.’”
She had no idea that just hours after that conversation she would be getting a call from the school’s principal who told her that William’s teacher had asked him what was on his forehead and he told her it as an ash cross for Ash Wednesday. The teacher told him it was “inappropriate…so take it off.”
“I was furious,” she told CNN. “This is who we are. This is part of our life as Catholics.”
Rest - https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2019/03/4th-graders-teacher-forced-wash-off-ashes-mass-ash-wednesday?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=PBWY