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.
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I don’t know about that.
It seems that the majority of humanity is subject to the “strong delusion” such that they can’t make the connection.
I hope you’re not serious.
Take a look at this kid and tell me he is not a dork.
During his free time?
The teacher can’t do anything about in my book.
You are still a Catholic if you were baptized a Catholic. You’ll have to talk to Christ about that at the moment you die.
While we are alive, Jesus is perfect mercy.
At the moment of our death, Jesus is perfect justice.
Dorky kids usually turn out to be the most worthwhile adults.
I got in serious trouble in 2nd grade for reading the wrong book in class.
I was supposed to be reading See Dick Run, or whatever, and I had Lord of the Rings tucked inside.
Big uproar.
I agree. If the students were to read something of their own choosing during the time allotted, then the teacher is wrong for this action. If, on the other hand, the student was reading the bible instead of the assigned material, then the student is wrong.
I believe what I believe, you believe what you believe. I am willing to admit that I am wrong as I so often have been. I try to learn from my mistakes and adjust so as to relieve the inevitable friction that arises from trying to deal with reality under a false premise. I understand the benefit of Christian inspired morality on the masses. It created the most free culture in the human experience. I’m a big fan of morality but still an agnostic.
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