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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts)
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:32 AM Oct 2015

Your classmate can't pray with you and needs to sit in the hall....

No, definitely not pointing him out or anything.

I know this is a part of another story posted before, but I did not realize it was THIS bad.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/07/3709974/public-elementary-school-allegedly-waged-shame-campaign-against-students-who-dont-believe-in-god/

A lawsuit filed on behalf of a non-religious family details a series of actions by teachers and administrators that, even if they were not designed specifically to humiliate the family’s children, certainly should be expected to have that effect.

According to a complaint filed on behalf of the family, who is identified as the “Does,” teachers at the Swainsboro Primary School in Swainsboro, Georgia “regularly led their classes in Christian prayer,” a practice that violates the Constitution’s First Amendment. When the Doe parents complained that their children’s kindergarten and first grade teachers were leading the class in unconstitutional prayers, their teachers allegedly “told the Doe children to leave their classrooms and sit in the hallway while the rest of the class prayed.” One of the children, a first grader, said that the teacher “used her mean voice” when she told the child to leave the classroom. Meanwhile, Cel Thompson, a kindergarten teacher, allegedly “announced to the entire kindergarten class that Jamie [Doe] was not allowed to pray to God and then told Jamie to wait in the hallway while the rest of the class prayed.”

The Doe parents eventually pulled Jamie from the school after the kindergartener complained about “feeling uncomfortable at school.” Meanwhile, the older student, who is identified in the complaint as “Jesse Doe,” remained at the public school, where teachers allegedly began to pressure the first grader to participate in the daily prayers. Jesse’s science teacher, according to the complaint, told Jesse to “make a good decision” about the unconstitutional prayers. The gym teacher also allegedly encouraged the first grader to simply give up and start praying with the class.

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Your classmate can't pray with you and needs to sit in the hall.... (Original Post) WillParkinson Oct 2015 OP
Disgusting. deucemagnet Oct 2015 #1
Brown eyes/blue eyes.... for real. AlbertCat Oct 2015 #2
They're desperate Yorktown Oct 2015 #3
 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
2. Brown eyes/blue eyes.... for real.
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 02:32 PM
Oct 2015

A "game" we did in 7th grade...to teach one about prejudice. For a time everyone with brown eyes are given outrageous privileges in class, and blue eyed students are badgered and ignored...to a ridiculous degree. Then after a while it all switches around so the blue eyes get the privileges. It was supposed to be an exercise.... not a school policy.

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
3. They're desperate
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 07:58 PM
Oct 2015

Atheism is on the rise.
Fire retardant tactics like these are sure to backfire.
Religion can have this dumbing down effect.

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