Kendra Turner, 17, of Dyersburg, Tennessee was suspended because she said ‘bless you’ to another student who sneezed.
It seems that the teacher has a list of words you can’t say in class, and ‘bless you’ is on the list. The teacher told the Turner “Now we will not have godly speaking in my class.”
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God help us all!
Pathetic
This is a disgraced!
ALAH , will bless you , WE have a islamic *pres , get it yet after 6 years folks ???
“OM”……People are so crazy.( bless you, bless you, and bless you.
Ms. teacher, shame on you! (But bless you anyway)
In my family it is a reaction. Someone sneezes and we say bless you without thinking! Shame on the school district for even considering this nonsense.
Please tell me this isn’t factual, and why isn’t this more newsworthy, if it is true?
Government is getting involved with way too many things. Wishing someone well after they sneeze probably originated thousands of years ago. The Romans would say “Jupiter preserve you” or “Salve,” which meant “good health to you,” and the Greeks would wish each other “long life.” The phrase “God bless you” is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great, who uttered it in the sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (sneezing is an obvious symptom of one form of the plague).
The exchangeable term “gesundheit” comes from Germany, and it literally means “health.” The idea is that a sneeze typically precedes illness. It entered the English language in the early part of the 20th century, brought to the United States by German-speaking immigrants.
Virtually every country around the globe has its own way of wishing sneezers well. People in Arabic countries say, “Alhamdulillah,” which means, “praise be to God.” Hindus say, “Live!” or “Live well!” Some countries have special sneezing responses for children. In Russia, after children are given the traditional response, “bud zdorov” (“be healthy”), they are also told “rosti bolshoi” (“grow big”). When a child sneezes in China, he or she will hear “bai sui,” which means, “may you live 100 years.”
Bless you!!!! Seriously, this is the stupidest thing I’ve seen today!!! Enough of this silliness!!