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Girl Told She Can't Read Bible at School

October 3, 2006 - 2:45pm — pchuck

From the Wasington Post article:

A vice principal at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School in Laurel last month ordered Amber, then 12, to stop reading the Bible or face punishment, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by Amber's mother. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, alleges that the vice principal's actions violated the girl's civil rights.


Here is the link:

If true, this is pretty disturbing.

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October 3, 2006 - 7:14pm — Daniel

Agreed

According to the Post, looks like the Bible reading took place at breaks and was completely consistent with school policy as reported:

The note quoted a section of the school system's administrative procedures, saying that students "may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals, and pray before tests to the same extent they may engage in comparable, non-disruptive activities."

I was in high school during the 1980s in Los Angeles, grand capital of secularism. I'd often read my Bible in the classroom once I'd finish my regular assignments and no school offiical ever bothered me about it.That's the way it should be, and doubly so during lunch and other breaks.It'll be interesting to see if there are other details that emerge that might reflect better on the vice-principal. So far it looks like overzealous secularism on the school's part.

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October 3, 2006 - 10:32pm — Walt

Also agreed (perhaps surprisingly?)

Heck, I'm a proud member of Americans United and about as secular as you get--and I believe the vice principal was offbase, based on what we've heard so far. What this student reads at lunch is None of the School's Business (with extremely rare exceptions, none of them involving religious material). Now, if the VP says nobody's allowed to read anything at lunch or on breaks, that would be a different matter: Absurdly foolish, but a different matter.

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