I suggest you run.
Posted on 02/06/2005 12:53:31 PM PST by Cupertino Mom
... the district filed a motion on Jan. 31 to dismiss the lawsuit. The district said in the motion that there's no factual evidence to back Williams' claim that his constitutional rights were violated. The motion also countered Williams' argument that he and his lesson plans were singled out for review by Principal Patricia Vidmar because of his religion. The motion stated that parental complaints prompted the actions.
(Excerpt) Read more at cupertinocourier.com ...
Oh! No. Different one. Trust me there!
WOW! You're just another Mom who is an engineer, and yet has time to come set us lowly Freepers straight. I'm honored.
Oh, forget this post. You've left us since you're an elitist "working stiff" who doesn't have time to hang people on the same peg, ain't that right?
No, not 'just because' you're new, but because you are lying and OBVIOUSLY so.
Nope! I can actually spell. My friend has said she can't!
Interesting that you're following this case and don't know what ADF is. Alliance Defense Fund, the lawyers' group with over $16 million budget who is backing Williams in this case, and to whose coffers I used to send my money.
LOL! Thanks for sharing that informative tidbit J
Well, they did give their email address in their about me page. Perhaps we can reply to him/her there.
MileyMcB@hotmail.com
Interesting. I never mentioned the spelling errors. So, are you saying you actually know the one who posted this thread? You just think it'd make it easier to throw us off the trail, but no dice.
I don't need a degree from some Tenured Turd™ to use my instincts.
I'm a she.
And my ping list is being held hostage right now, by a very sick computer. Long story, but I'm dyin' here.
It seems "Parents" are playing a little fast and loose with the facts in this case by saying they never banned the Constitution. Technically, they did not ban the Constitution, just any meaningful discussion of how it was created. "Here is Constitution but don't say anything about how or why it was created."
Here is an article I found on the subject that explains it much better than the lame story linked in this thread.
Flashpoint: religious materials in class
(The "religious" materials are the writings of the founders it would seem)
...Stevens Creek has received hundreds of angry phone calls and more than 3,000 e-mails — some vulgar, others threatening — since Nov. 22, when one of its teachers, Stephen Williams, filed a federal lawsuit against the school. The fifth-grade teacher alleges his civil rights were violated when school principal Patricia Vidmar ordered him to stop distributing documents to his students "because of their religious content."
Among the banned documents, the suit says, were religious excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, various state constitutions and writings by George Washington, John Adams and William Penn.
Vidmar also banned a document Williams created called "What Great Leaders Have Said About The Bible." It quotes Jesus Christ and nine U.S. presidents. According to the handout, John Adams said, "The Bible is the best book in the world."
In his lawsuit, Williams, 39, said he merely wanted to use historical documents to explain the role of religion among the nation's founding fathers. But he said he was singled out because the principal knew he was a self-professed Christian....
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This most certainly is a case of the school trying to keep any reference to religion out of the school, as if to teach the kids by ommission that religious beliefs had nothing to do with the founding of our nation.
The parents and school seem confused over the difference between telling kids that people that crafted the constitution were religious and preaching religion to the kids.
Yessir, all the classic signs of elitist hippie trash. It has a Doctorate, don'tcha know, and has a job, but also has the time to come here and say "looka me - I are sumbuddy!" And it has friends, too. What a small world indeed, for to it run up on its bridge partner/A.N.S.W.E.R. monkey Bush hating blogger neighbor here.
Though it won't denounce a thing of that hippie site (that promotes raw sewage like Kos) it reminds us all we're incompetent when it comes to intellectual discourse.
Oh yeah, that site doesn't belong to it, let's not forget that.
Apparently you can't read. Did I not say I am a Christian who goes to church every Sunday? DO you? And what values do they teach you there?
Safer than I would feel using that much hyperbole. That stuff can kill your already-limited credibility...
Oh, that's a riot. Mind if I steal it?
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