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Related: About this forumUsing schoolkids to promote religion is a shameless ploy
Your child comes home to say shes been invited to an event promoting the teachings of Scientology. Her friend invited her and the friends parents offered to take her, so the kid innocently thinks it must be OK, right?
Thats what a recent lawsuit filed against the Loomis Union School District feels like. A sixth-grader attending the Loomis Basin Charter School received a flier from a friend inviting her to a faith-based event. She asked her mom about going. The mother, apparently displeased, called the school.
The lawsuit alleges that because school administrators reprimanded the girl for sharing the flier during lunch without their permission, they violated her free speech rights. District policy states that promotional materials require administrative approval before distribution, and further that such materials cannot contain religiously proselytizing language.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/bruce-maiman/article5131995.html#storylink=cpy
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(17,863 posts)Exchange of literature between children is permissible. Agents of the state are not involved. On the other hand it is a one off situation. If the child notifies the administration that she no longer wishes the information, then it would be harassment for the peer to continue to give child the information.
Of course this applies to pretty much anything that might not be considered child abuse (pornography would be excluded because that is recognized as being age appropriate). Of course if I told you that the literature the child can gives out includes child sacrifice, stories of child rape, genocide, drinking sperm, equating male sex members to donkey members, sanctioned capital punishment for incredibly trivial things, and -well you get the idea; then you would probably say it is inappropriate for children. That is unless you are talking about the good book.