Posted on 07/27/2007 11:39:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego school that drew international attention for setting aside time for Muslim students to pray in the classroom will no longer do so, it was reported Friday.
Instead, Carver Elementary's schedule will be reconfigured so students can say their required midday prayers during lunch. Courts have long upheld students' rights to pray on their own during lunch or recess, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
When the new school year begins, Carver will have two lunch periods, including one that will fall when Muslims typically say their midday prayer -- between 1 and 2 p.m., the newspaper reported.
Another controversial element of Carver's educational program geared toward Muslim students -- single-gender classes -- will be eliminated, the Union-Tribune reported.
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Score one for common sense!
Cool, so now Christian groups can hold group prayer during their lunch?
Your celebration will be short-lived. Wait for some loudmouth ACLU idiot to sue.
Changing their entire schedule to accomodate "prayer" time for these cultists is only marginally less insane than setting aside classroom time.
Man, they go to all the trouble to kowtow and get spanked for it.
“Cool, so now Christian groups can hold group prayer during their lunch?”
Yes. They always have been able to.
its still hate literature and hate cult being practiced in the school yard
How long till someone saws off the Superintendent’s head?
Excellent point and very well said!
oh no. liberals believe in separation of church and state-not mosque and state.
Correct. Students will need extra time to digest their lunch to avoid being groggy when class time resumes.
not if you are a Christian they haven't.
This is one of the most absurd statements I've read. The courts have been adamant in their 'no Christianity at school' stance, on par with Nero or the Inquisition.
Smart. However death cult machete-swingers will dance around the school demanding the right to receive hate-propaganda while pretending to pray.
It’ll kill capitalism. Business will grind to a halt 5-times a day.
What will Donald Trump do? Convert?
How do you figure? Two lunch periods? When do the teachers go? Looks like some muslims will be wth different classmates after this.
Notice all of the dumb, miquetoast white chics rocking the hijab...but the Sister, she had better sense.
Go'head Ma!
Maybe we can allow the Christians to have a prayer and mention God in the classroom and a graduation.
Done with absolutely NO assistance from ACLU....
Atheist Criminal Lechers United apparently has little concern whether Muslims are given free rein in their activities in the “public square”. After all, it is not like Allah were a REAL divinity.
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