The decision was made without consultation with the district’s school board and has raised concerns among First Amendment experts and some parents.
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The very concept of having government schools at all should sound First Amendment alarm bells. Government schools and the First Amendment and freedom of conscience are utterly incompatible!
Let’s examine this one issue:
There are only **two** possible choices for this government school. They allow the dictionaries or they replace them. It is a binary decision. No matter which decision is made the freedom of conscience of some of the parents will be trampled.
As for the taxpayer they will be forced to pay for it regardless of their religious, political, or cultural beliefs.
so...your answer is to ban govt. schools then? thats helpful/sarcasm.
Im no fan of public schools but they are here to stay so why not try a more reasonable solution? Maybe actually talking to your kids about words they may hear on the playground?