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What is legally permissible for students in America's public schools
DISCRIMINATION- School authorities may not discriminate against religious activity or speech.
BIBLE READING AND PRAYER- Students may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say a prayer before meals, and pray before tests.
DISCUSSIONS- Students may attempt to persuade their peers concerning religious topics, just as they may political topics. Harassment, however, (which is not defined) is not permissible.
SCHOOL WORK- Students may use religious themes in their homework, artwork, or other assignments, and such work should be judged (graded) by ordinary academic standards.
LITERATURE- Students have the right to distribute religious literature (tracts, etc.) to their schoolmates on the same terms as they are permitted to distribute other literature.
RELIGIOUS OBJECTIONS- Students may be excused from lessons that are objectionable on religious or other conscientious grounds.
CLOTHING- Students may wear clothing depicting religious themes, and these messages may not be singled out for suppression. They are subject to the same rules as apply to comparable messages.
CHRISTIAN GROUPS- Students religious groups at public secondary schools have the same right of access to school facilities as is enjoyed by other comparable student groups.
STUDENT MEETINGS- Student meetings may include a prayer service, Bible reading, or other worship exercise.
ACCESS- Students may use the public address system, the school newspaper, and the school bulletin board to announce their meetings, on the same terms as other student groups. (This only applies to schools receiving federal funds.)
GRADUATION PRAYER- School officials may not mandate or organize prayer at graduation ceremonies, nor organize baccalaureate services.
TEACHING- Schools may teach about religion, including the Bible or other scripture, the history of religion, the Bible-as-literature, and the role of religion in the United States and other countries. Schools are to be neutral with respect to religion. However, they may play an active role with respect to teaching civic values and virtue, and the moral code that holds us together as a community. Schools may not allow religious instruction by outsiders on school premises during the school day. However, school officials may dismiss students to off-premises religious instruction.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS- School officials, as representatives of the state, may not solicit or encourage religious activity, nor participate in such activity with the students.
Have you heard of any stories about students rights violated? Heres's one example:
A student had her microphone cut off during a speech to her graduating class (click to read story)
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Re: What is legally permissible for students in America's public schools
I have...but, I haven't anything more about how her lawsuit case is going. Have you?
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wow, according to this my school has some adjusting to do...
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here is a video link of an interview with her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qgG6aV1HA
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I will dance I will sing To be mad For my King Nothing Lord Is hindering This passion in my soul And I'll become Even more undignified than this Some may say It's foolishness But I'll become Even more undignified than this
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here is a video link of an interview with her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qgG6aV1HA
good work on that find  . i have to watch it later, my dog needs a bath 
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humble professional google-er at your service 
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I will dance I will sing To be mad For my King Nothing Lord Is hindering This passion in my soul And I'll become Even more undignified than this Some may say It's foolishness But I'll become Even more undignified than this
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Re: What is legally permissible for students in America's public schools
While all that you have stated is legal, please keep in mind that school is the place to learn academics. We have students from a variety of religious background.
Those rights also apply to students of differing faiths. This year we have a few Students who are of the Sikh faith.
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When I was in high school (16 years ago...dang I'm old) we had an elective that was Bible Based. So, one mom threw a fit and they canceled the class.
So, then they tried to have a "Jesus Club" that met during lunch. Same mom threw a fit, saying little Johnny felt pressured to go to this club meeting. So, the canceled the club, too.
I agree with you, Onyx, school is a place for academics, but wasn't the one book nearly everyone learned to read the Bible?
From Prayerfoundation.org
"Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl killed in her classroom?"
Sincerely, Concerned Student
"Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in schools."
Sincerely, God.
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Maybe we've forgotten the way this country was founded. Check out This Link.
Here are some clips.
Fisher Ames, the same man who wrote the First Amendment, also wrote that the Bible should always remain the principle text book in America's classrooms.
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"You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention." George Washington
" Let...statesmen and patriots unite their endeavors to renovate the age by...educating their little boys and girls...and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system." Samuel Adams
"History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion...and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern." Benjamin Franklin
"Only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation." John Jay, ORIGINAL CHIEF-JUSTICE U.S. SUPREME COURT
"The United States of America were no longer Colonies. They were an independent nation of Christians." John Quincy Adams
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97% of the founding fathers were practicing Christians and exercised their faith in public office, at work, at home, and had it taught to their children in their schools.
187 of the first 200 colleges in America were Christian, Bible teaching institutions. Entrance to Harvard required strong knowledge of the Bible.
You could hardly find a school in America that wasn't Christian based with the Bible as its main text book until the 1830's.
"The Jubilee of the Constitution" by John Quincy Adams explains the Constitution as dependent upon the virtues proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. That's why the Ten Commandments are inscribed in stone on the Supreme Court building. Those men saw the law of God as the basis of all law for all men always, never to be changed! How can we withhold God and His truth from our educational classrooms for children today? One Nation Under God. United we stand together with Christ.
  
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Maybe we've forgotten the way this country was founded
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"Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl killed in her classroom?"
Sincerely, Concerned Student
"Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in schools."
Sincerely, God.
I saw a cartoon soon after Columbine similier to that, 2 kids standing outside CHS, one said " Why didn't God save the kids?" the other kid says " Because God isn't allowed in schools"
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