For this reason government schools should be privatized, and there should be complete separation between school and state.
Will Christian parents be gracious when their children are forced into viewing and discussing images of the Angel Moroni or Joseph Smith? Will they welcome Wiccan images? Will Jewish parents be thrilled when Muslim students draw pictures of a nuclear bomb destroying Israel.? When these images are posted on bulletin boards and discussed in class, their spiritually and emotionally immature children will be exposed to and indoctrinated into ideas that are in conflict with family tradition.
Please remember that any government powerful enough to force Christian art on non-Christian children is powerful enough to force anti-Christian art on Christian children.
The education of children is **never** religiously neutral. Government schools are NOT religiously neutral and never have been. They will always trample religious freedom of conscience.
As for this specific case:
Yes, the attorneys should pursue this. Why?
Answer: Because if Christian speech is suppressed in government schools it will be suppressed elsewhere in government and public environments. As long as we have government schools the rights for Christians to speak in them must be defended.
Unfortunately, the courts will rule narrowly on the issue before it. ( The student will likely win.) The courts will ignore the fundamental problem of government schools being in complete conflict with freedom of conscience and the First Amendment.
The Constitution does not allow anyone to restrict freedom of religious speech.
The only grounds for a “zero” IMHO are if he totally failed to follow the instructions for the assignment. If he drew a toad instead of a race car, then maybe a zero is OK. but it would seem that the youngster did draw an outdoor scene and so should be entitled to some credit.
He used the lines of perspective and I suspect this was one element of the drawing technique being taught.