Do we know, for a fact, that the “uninformed
bigotry” is limited to the one student?
From: Brad M Pardee
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005
2:06 PM
To: Law
& Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: FYI: An Interesting
"See You at the Pole" Case
Zealotry?
How is a group of kids meeting together to pray qualify as zealotry?
And how does one child's uninformed bigotry have anything to do with
whether or not kids meet together to pray? Surely you're not suggesting
that kids should hide their faith at school, as though it was something to be
ashamed of.
Brad
Paul
Finkelman wrote on 10/31/2005 12:38:45 PM:
> WHere I live (Oklahoma) some teachers in some public
schools take
> attendance at the "See you at the
Polls" meetings and some give extra
> credit for those who attend.
Students who do not attend are often
> shunned by others. In one school a young man
was holding the door for
> students to enter the school but then closed
it in the face of a girl,
> saying, "I do not hold the door for
Jews." This is not a school
> sanctioned act -- rather it is the act of a
student, but it does
> illustrate the social climate created by
bringing religious zealotry to
> the school.
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