Posted on 07/27/2007 11:39:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Ummm, all you have to, do is a simple search. In fact, earlier in this thread I posted a quote about how kids are perfectly welcome to read their Bibles on personal time. This is not a question at all. Even the evil ACLU says this MUST ABSOLUTELY be allowed.
Please show me otherwise.
n April 2000, a new law came into being; requiring all Virginian public school students to observe a moment of silence. Also, in 2005, a law was passed in Indiana requiring all public schools to give students a chance to say the pledge of allegiance and observe a moment of silence every day.
I realize this is just from Wickepedia, but I do KNOW that Virginia school still have a moment of silence.
“In October 2000, the U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton ruled that the “moment of silence” law was constitutional. Judge Hilton stated, “The court finds that the Commonwealth’s daily observance of one minute of silence act is constitutional. The act was enacted for a secular purpose, does not advance or inhibit religion, nor is there excessive entanglement with religion... Students may think as they wish — and this thinking can be purely religious in nature or purely secular in nature. All that is required is that they sit silently.”
My daughter used to take a Bible to school and showed it openly. No problem.
Please show me otherwise.
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I do not think you understand. You contested me with your opinion but refuse to provide proof of what you state nor disproof of my statement. I suggest that you not depend on your counter pointer to confirm your point. I don’t think a simple search will suffice - start with a Lexus Nexus and many telephone calls and emails. The onus is on you. PS: I do not consider the ACLU as credible and hold it in very low esteem.
My daughter used to take a Bible to school and showed it openly. No problem.
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My school chums and I “used to” always have a Barlow pocket knife in our pocket when we went to school. It was not out of order to have a hunting knife on ones hip if we were running traps after school. A real 12 Gage shotgun for sound effects in the senior play (fired it out the second story window, sans pellets), yes.
I’m not sure why m#$%$^#er needs to be said ‘out loud’, but it is DAILY.
The other day my wife came home from work, she works in a public school cafeteria where one of the little angels asked if he could have pizza AND the main course, but she said he could not (that is the rule), so he answered: “well you m#%$&@er”!!!! She told her supervisor and nothing was done. (Nothing’s EVER done.)
Later another angel threw a double-ended sharpened pencil through the air that landed in her head, luckily it didn’t stab her.
This is a public elementary school outside of Atlanta, and they’re ALL this way, some worse than others. I know because we’ve moved 3 times in 10 years, we can’t afford private school.
The teachers have completely lost control. Yet if a kid is even SEEN with a Bible they’re told “it’s not allowed”.
The word Christmas was removed from the school calendar because it was too offensive...the Georgia ACLU sued our entire school system, to have it removed, (without a fight because no parent was even aware of it until afterwards).
a court isn’t the issue, it’s teachers. I’ve CONSISTENTLY seen not just one public school eliminate this but ALL of them in and around our area.
I’ve seen teachers allow students to run rampant and in fact disappear when chaos breaks loose during lunch though.
But let a kid pray...oh NO!
Uh, it doesn’t MATTER if it’s constitutional, NO teacher here follows the constitution, and the NEA’s agenda is WELL known!
If my school district ever decided to accommodate prayer time for Muslims, I would definitely resign.
Oh Karen Hughes....what a disappointment :(
“Uh, it doesn’t MATTER if it’s constitutional, NO teacher here follows the constitution, “
Then do something about it other than moaning and groaning. Get the Rutherford Institute involved.
Your posts make absolutely no sense. You should take a little more time when you write.
You are just about as wrong as you can be. I could list many, many more, but they all say the same.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_pra8.htm
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/religionandschools/prayer_guidance.html
http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/student-prayer-faq.htm
Good for you! It sounds like if this San Diego school hadn’t generated attention, they would still be having Muslim students praying in the classroom, and gender-segregated classrooms to accomodate them. Who knows what they would’ve come up with next!
It’s still wrong that they’re having two lunch periods only for the sake of accomodating Muslim prayer time. This is absurd!
I’ve done MANY things about it, including educating people with their heads in the sand like ostriches. ;)
Time for a lawsuit then.
Already in the works. ThomasMore.org. Takes years though.
Not sure about the ACLJ, but they too are active.
Frankly the USSC needs to go ahead and make a ruling and stop the Michael Newdow’s of the world.
Amazingly these very same people bash the judiciary for being too slow to address valid lawsuits!
“School Stops Scheduling Class Time For Muslim Prayer”
Heads are gonna’ roll!
Mark
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