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Posted on 11/15/2026 1:28:44 PM PST by george76
District says teacher was 'offered a variety of ways in which she could practice her faith while not encroaching on the religious freedoms of her students'..
A veteran Connecticut public school teacher who says she was escorted out of her school with a crucifix in a box after refusing to remove the religious symbol from her classroom is taking her First Amendment fight to a federal appeals court, with oral arguments scheduled for Dec. 7.
Marisol Arroyo-Castro, who has taught for more than 30 years .. was stunned when a school administrator informed her that displaying the crucifix was illegal and warned that refusing to remove it would amount to insubordination.
"I said, 'I can't,'" Arroyo-Castro said, remembering the moment she was told she could return to her classroom only if she left the crucifix behind.
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The confrontation sparked a legal battle over religious expression in public schools, with Arroyo-Castro's attorneys arguing that her personal display was protected by the First Amendment and the school district maintaining a position that prevailed in federal district court.
The dispute began in December 2024, after administrators at DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School in New Britain, Connecticut, ordered Arroyo-Castro to remove a crucifix she had displayed near her desk for roughly a decade.
Arroyo-Castro, who was teaching middle-school social studies, said the crucifix had been a quiet source of comfort throughout her career, something she would look at while grading papers or completing reports.
"I pretty much kept it to myself," she said. "It keeps me calm and [it's] just part of me."
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Arroyo-Castro's attorneys will argue her display of the crucifix was protected under the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses
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If it was a “Star and Crescent” it would be culturally enriching and OK.
Was there a rainbow flag involved?
“Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” - John 16:2
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
For those who don’t know New Britain is a horrid slum.
The administrators are correct here. It’s but a small jump from displaying a religious symbol in a public school to discussing it with a curious student. Such discussions belong at home.
Before anyone yells at me, consider a Muslim public school teacher who’s allowed to keep the Koran on his desk. You betcha he’d work it into conversations.
By the way, I’m not enough to remember lunch prayers lead by teachers in my school. Those prayers were nondenominational, and I think a good thing. But those innocent days are long gone.
Typo in my post #7. It should read:
By the way, I’m OLD enough to remember lunch prayers lead by teachers in my school.
Schadenfreude.
Liberals in a bind since they have to choose between preferred group and Christian persecution.
As it is…I hope this woman mentions any homo flags if she’s witnessed them in the school.
Luke 18:8
21st Century King James Version
8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of Man cometh,
shall He find Faith on the Earth?”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2018%3A%208&version=KJ21
Yeppers
I’m not going to yell at you though I will note that your view is founded on the modern, bastardized view of the First amendment, the fiction of the requirement of “separation of church and state.”
I’m all on her side but how could she be surprised or shocked by this? I’m pretty sure the same thing would happen to me if put a crucifix up on the wall in my former federal government office.
Good for her!
The school board worships the AntiChrist
Good for her!
The school board worships the AntiChrist
Good for her!
The school board worships the AntiChrist
No, I am not arguing from 1st Amendment grounds at all. In fact, I didn’t even consider it.
Instead, I hold that there are topics that should stay out of public schools. They belong at home. Religion is one of them. Politics is another.
Stick to reading, writing and arithmetic.
As you can see it is an old building.
Most of the city is very dangerous—about as bad as it gets.
(I actually lived there for a year many decades ago—with my girlfriend, later my wife, in her apartment. One year is how long it took me to convince her to move to the nice suburbs.
Now we live deep in the woods.
Lol.)
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