Posted on 04/10/2022 4:05:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
“The Girls Lacrosse Team is no longer permitted to wear the Pray for Peace t-shirts at home or away events as warm up gear,” the email read. “The message conveyed by the shirts, although positive in nature and well meaning, can be interpreted as religious and political in nature.”
The school district said the shirts were too religious and too political. A double-whammy.
Parent Clare Levison said the girls offered to replace the word “pray” with the word “play.” However, that compromise was rejected.
The Roanoke Times reported that the school’s librarian was ordered to remove a display sign that featured books about Eastern Europe. The sign read, “Stand for peace.”
“Apparently, the administration of Montgomery County Public Schools wishes to remain neutral on praying, playing or even standing for peace,” Mrs. Levison wrote on her Facebook page. “
That’s why she bestowed upon the school board a special commendation: the “Insult My Intelligence Award.”
“Pray for Peace is not a religious statement that requires separation of church and state,” she wrote on Facebook. “It is one that all presidents in power, regardless of political party, reference on a regular basis.”
In February, resident Biden announced that both he and the First Lady were praying for the “brave and proud people of Ukraine.”
“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces. President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” the president said. “Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the United States and its Allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable,” the president said.
Not only did resident Biden violate the school board’s edict on prayers, he also took sides in the war.
“Pray for peace is neither a religious nor political statement,” Mrs. Levison wrote. “It is a universally accepted sentiment.”
But that’s not how the school board sees the matter.
“What is the peace from?” interim superintendent Annie Whitaker told The Roanoke Times. “A war. And a war is rooted in what? It’s a political war, from people who have differing views.”
Essentially, Montgomery County Public Schools has decided to remain neutral in the war between Ukraine and Russia.
“Could someone please let the Jews know that Hitler just had a different view than they had,” Mrs. Levison wrote. “Could someone please let the Buddhists know that Pol Pot just had a different view than they had? And could someone please let the Russians who were sent to the Gulags know that Stalin just had a different view than they had?”
The people in charge of Montgomery County Public Schools are a bunch of godless, cancel culture, group think zombies. Everyone has their own truth.
I wrote about this terrible malady that has inflicted our nation’s public education system in my book, “Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation.”
The school district truly believes that Ukrainians have their version of the truth and the Russians have their version. Who are we to take sides?
As I wrote in “Culture Jihad,” right and wrong - morality - cannot exist when there is no absolute truth.
“There isn’t really a reason within a sports team to be wearing school issued uniforms that are promoting anything other than the sport,” she said. “The purpose of that sport is to play that sport.”
“When the top administrator of our county’s education system takes the stance that even peace is controversial, our moral compass hasn’t just been broken. It’s been shattered into a million tiny pieces,” Mrs. Levison wrote.
There’s only one way to facilitate a course correction in Blacksburg – every person on the school board must be removed from office and replaced with fair-minded, freedom-loving patriots.
Let’s see how neutral Montgomery County Public Schools will be when parents declare war on the school board. Pray for peace, indeed.
Roanoke is woke
I bet the school board lets gay teachers talk with 5 year olds about their sexual experiences.
Agreed. And I bet they would also allow Muslim students to have a prayer room set aside in each and every of their schools if it was demanded.
“The Girls Lacrosse Team is no longer permitted to wear the Pray for Peace t-shirts …
Sure they are. Just wear the damn thing. There is no prohibition in the law against doing so except the made up on in the minds of God-hating jackasses. Time to tell them to drop dead.
These girls rights are being violated. There is no Constitutional “Separation of Church and State”. The letter the federal government uses to push the concept of “Separation” is actually intended to protects these girls rights to do this.
Agree
Wouldn’t this be covered under the 1st Amendment? I agree, wear the shirts. If they’re retaliated against...file legal action.
Pray for war more appropriate
The infiltration of the school board did not happen overnight. It was allowed to happen over time by complacent parents who chose not to get involved or even pay attention. Hopefully this is a wake up call.
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I thought we were promised Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion.
So, what about someone wearing a hijab for religious reasons...
Wouldn’t the mere presence of a hijab scream religion?
That is DEFINITELY a religious symbol!!
Genesis 17:9-11 9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. 10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
“Apparently, the administration of Montgomery County Public Schools wishes to remain neutral on praying, playing or even standing for peace,” Mrs. Levison wrote on her Facebook page. “
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The four horsemen approach.
It looks like it will have to be the mothers that save the country.
Roanoke School Board are Obozo remnants. Vote the Socialists out.
Bet they could wear “Black Lives Matter” shirts.
“Pray for war more appropriate”
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