Posted on 01/08/2015 12:54:26 PM PST by lowbridge
Parents are accusing a teacher of violating their child’s First Amendment rights by allegedly refusing to allow him to read his Bible in school.
They claim that their son, Loyal Grandstaff, a middle school student at Bueker Middle School in Marshall, Missouri, was told by his teacher that he couldn’t read the book after he brought the Bible in and silently studied it during free time.
“I feel like it violated his freedom of religion but also his freedom of speech,” Justin Grandstaff, the 12 year old’s father, told WDAF-TV.
Loyal said that he wasn’t being loud and that he wasn’t sharing the book with his peers at the time.
“I like to read my Bible because it’s a good book,” the 7th grader told the outlet. “I was just reading, just reading because I had free time. A time to do what I wanted to, so I just broke it out and read.”
Bueker Middle School principal Lance Tobin said that he would look into the situation, though the family has not yet spoken with the teacher in question nor administrators; Justin Grandstaff said he plans to do so when school reopens Tuesday following the holiday break.
It is currently unclear what the educator allegedly said to the student and a voicemail left for the superintendent has not yet been returned to TheBlaze.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/YjntXYDPw44
I’m an agnostic, raised shiite Catholic (was an altar boy back when we only spoke Latin) The morality of a Christian upbringing was necessary for America to grow and succeed...as I feel this video suggests.
I got nothing against a kid reading a bible during his free time at school.
But the kid should be warned that he is going to get picked on for being weird.
Even back in the 60’s he would have gotten picked on for whipping out a bible in Junior High. At least where I went to school. If you do not fit the norm, you are teased (called being bullied these days.)
Perhaps the teacher was trying to look out for this little dork. And he is a little dork.
Kids like to rebel so I hope this catches on. The Liberal doctrine is being scoffed at<BR
by students like these.
But if he would have brought that muslim book full of child molestation and murder the teacher wouldn’t have said a thing.
I think I’d want to know what this “free time” was. Was it recess? Or was it unstructured study time? Recess the teacher was wrong, unstructured study time is for class work and that probably doesn’t include the Bible.
You have to try this with a Bible AND A koran, and see if they ban both of them
Used to be that they encouraged them to read the Bible.
The Bible was taught in my English 4X class in High School as PART OF THE CURRICULUM.
Public High School, 1984. Not kidding.
We looked at it as literature. It was an outstanding module. These guys need to know that after Paris, and the killing of those two cops in NYC, the pendulum is going to start swinging violently back to the right pretty quick.
Nobody wants to live in Amerabia, or Eurabia, or in Gaylezbostan. Not even the peaceful muslims, honest to goodness real gay folks that just want to be gay, happy, and left alone, and lesbians that are more bi than gay want to live in those places.
Read our Bill of Rights on this issue. It guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. One small word makes all the difference.
Just tuck the Bible inside some Planned Barrenhood written materials, and then it will pass muster.
Loyal Grandstaff - what a name!
Based on the limited info from the article, the teacher was wrong to stop student from reading the Bible. I suspect a possible zombie-mentality interpretation of PC “church and state separation."
Otherwise, the low-information article from the Blaze is arguably an attempt to promote dissension. The Blaze probably should have waited for more details after parent / teacher confrontation before posting it imo.
If the story is as it stands now, outrage is definitely called for. I just don’t like jumping into outrage only to find out later that the truth is radically different.
Not defending the school, if this is true, but why did the parents go to the media before contacting the school?
It’s funny...
The secularists/humanists have a problem with only ONE religion...
That tells you something, does it not?
Another parent should send their kid into the same classroom with a Koran and see what happens. If they leave the kid alone, they should raise all holy hell. “So you challenge the reading of the Bible but not the Koran, why is that?”
The public school I attended in MN allowed a once a week bible study for the students, in a church across the street from the school. That was in the late 40s and early 50s. A nice settled family neighborhood which now is just a hood where you find druggies and lots of shootings. It is not safe to be there.
Agreed. But the article is written very one-sided, and we need to all keep in mind that one half of the truth isn’t necessarily true.
Sometimes I think Satan is really tipping his hand!
What a click-baiting title. Almost looks like the type of title Glenn Beck would come up with.
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