Posted on 05/05/2014 8:16:27 AM PDT by Biggirl
Officials at Broward County Public Schools banned a fifth grader from reading the Bible during “free reading” time, according to lawyers from the Liberty Institute who are threatening to sue the school for violating the First Amendment.
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This sounds like pretty cut-and-dry anti-1st-amendment. It was free reading time. The child wasn’t reading it aloud, they were reading it quietly. How is that hurting anyone or proselytizing?
she looks like a peach too....
The Mission of Park Lakes Elementary School... ...is to provide a stimulating, diverse, and positive learning environment to meet the needs of all students. We will provide opportunities to promote quality education in personal, social, academic, and emotional growth.
It would have been okay if it was the Koran though.
Do NOT post her photo. Not enough eye bleach to cleanse that image.
Happened to my daughter 20 years ago in second grade. Best thing that ever happened to her. From that day forward she was skeptical of teachers and other authorities. It pretty much immunized her from public school indoctrination.
I guess an 11 yr old quietly reading the Bible in free reading time is equivalent to establishing a state religion?
Geez if he was reading Mein Kampf, what would that imply?
she looks like a peach too....
She looks like a knuckle-dragger.
I wonder where she went to college. If I had to guess, it was one of those discriminatory black college degree mills.
probable school response: eliminate free reading time
Whose classroom?
And her name is Swornia...
“He’s not permitted to read those books in my classroom”
Whose classroom?
Exactly! A lot of teachers and judges need to learn it’s the taxpayers’ classrooms and the taxpayers’ courtrooms. They forget who they work for.
Some of the comments at the end of the article are hysterical.
So buy the kid a copy of Joseph P. Martino’s “Resistance to Tyranny” or H.Von Dach’s book “Total Resistance” that ought make the little statist bastard really unhappy.
By doing so, they rely on the ignorance of many citizens of America's founding history and of the ideas of liberty which were strongly held and advocated by the man (Jefferson) who authored the Declaration of Independence, with its recognition of a "Creator," of "the laws of nature and of nature's God," of "Divine Providence," and of "Supreme judge of the world," as well as the actual meaning and context of his letter to the Baptists--whose phrase about the "wall of separation" they love to twist and cite as the basis of their prejudice and tyranny against religious expression in the public square!
Perhaps these "progressives" might wish to read and be honest enough to cite this portion of Thomas Jefferson's letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper:
"In our village of Charlottesville, there is a good degree of religion, with a small spice only of fanaticism. We have four sects, but without either church or meeting-house. . . .As for Jefferson's views on a university setting as a place appropriate for open exchange of ideas and of unthreatened expression of religious thought, and to correct a then-false impression that the institution was against religion, he stated:. . . The court-house is the common temple, one Sunday in the month to each. Here, Episcopalian and Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist, meet together, join in hymning their Maker, listen with attention and devotion to each others' preachers, and all mix in society with perfect harmony.
". . . .In our university you know there is no Professorship of Divinity. A handle has been made of this, to disseminate an idea that this is an institution, not merely of no religion, but against all religion. Occasion was taken at the last meeting of the Visitors, to bring forward an idea that might silence this calumny, which weighed on the minds of some honest friends to the institution. In our annual report to the legislature, after stating the constitutional reasons against a public establishment of any religious instruction, we suggest the expediency of encouraging the different religious sects to establish, each for itself, a professorship of their own tenets, on the confines of the university, so near as that their students may attend the lectures there, and have the free use of our library, and every other accommodation we can give them; preserving, however, their independence of us and of each other. This fills the chasm objected to ours, as a defect in an institution professing to give instruction in all useful sciences. I think the invitation will be accepted, by some sects from candid intentions, and by others from jealousy and rivalship. And by bringing the sects together, and mixing them with the mass of other students, we shall soften their asperities, liberalize and neutralize their prejudices, and make the general religion a religion of peace, reason, and morality." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper
If it was the Koran....she wouldn’t dare....
Geez if he was reading Mein Kampf, what would that imply?
That he was a student in a Napola, a national socialist
school?
Your child, and my child, had parental support, and chances are you, like I, said something and did something about it, rather than just tell our young children to “deal with it”.
Like this child's parent.
In my child's case, it was first evident with a kindergarten level teacher trying to foist vegetarianism on her, and next when the teacher wouldn't let her be an “Indian” in a “Thanksgiving Day” play, because she was light skinned and blond, although she was just one generation out of automatic native tribal status. The sick thing about this whole topic is: children have to fight for their rights against adults .
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