“None of the parents or faculty knew it was being taped to be aired. They were essentially held hostage and told to clap after this man’s responses to questions, even when they didn’t agree with them.”
You’re believing the account of one disgruntled cafeteria Catholic parent of what her daughter may or may not have told her or implied. These people hate Opus Dei because it is orthodox, so exaggeration, dissimulation or flat out lying about any event involving it are perfectly acceptable means of attack to them.
“None of the parents or faculty knew it was being taped to be aired. They were essentially held hostage and told to clap after this man’s responses to questions, even when they didn’t agree with them.”
That is explicitly illegal in the state of New Jersey and is probably also illegal in Rhode Island also.
Each child requires a permission slip signed by a legal guardian to have their likeness, voice, picture, video etc to first be recorded, and then redistributed.
Seeing as this group is a 501 nonprofit or religious organization that accepts donations on a url that will contain a direct hyperlink to this recorded speech, brings in a whole other set of legal precedents in New Jersey, and probably Rhode Island as well.
On top of that, as it was a religious topic, in New Jersey another permission slip would be required for each student to allow participation in the event, or alternatively a school wide flyer can be sent home with all kids to allow any objecting parent time to arrange for their child to skip school, or go to study hall or something during the event.
This school principal stepped into a huge pile of dogshite because of her lack of professionalism, and it didn’t have to be this way nor did the event have to be controversial during or afterwards,....
NO one wants their kids to be imprisoned in an auditorium while being lectures on Hadiths by radical Salafists, ... without giving each parent the choice if they want their child exposed to this.
hikingmani posted at 8:47 pm on Fri, Apr 11, 2014. hikingmaniPosts: 1 So I go to Prout and was at the assembly. First off, we knew that this was a radio broadcast (IDK what this article is talking about), that was made perfectly clear to us, in fact, we were supposed to ask questions to Fr. Hoffman. Students whose questions were chosen, would get to ask them on the radio station. Questions were asked about gay marriage, abortion, and other theological issues. Fr. Rocky answered them all the way you'd expect him to.
Who to believe? a journalist quoting a disgruntled parent of a disgruntled student; or a gruntled student? Need more evidence.