Fox Kansas City airs false story about teacher banning Bible

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Source: Raw Story

A Kansas City middle schooler and his parents complained the 12-year-old’s teacher stopped him from reading the Bible during free time, but their story fell apart on closer examination.

Loyal Grandstaff said he decided to bring his favorite book to school to read before the holiday break, and he said the teacher asked him to stop – even though he claims he wasn’t reading aloud or during class time.

... The story, first reported Monday by WDAF-TV, quickly went viral, and the principal promised to investigate the incident.

Lance Tobin, principal of Bueker Middle School, said Thursday that he had found no evidence the incident happened.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/viral-story-about-bible-hating-missouri-teacher-falls-apart-after-principal-investigates/

[silverweb]

1. HA!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I knew there was more to the original story than what was being said!

[Scuba]

2. They love playing the victim.

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3. There was a similar incident a few years ago

As I recall, in that case the kid wanted to stay indoors and read the Bible instead of going out onto the playground with his class. The school insisted that outdoors play was an essential part of the school day and wasn't optional. But the story got blown up into a huge "school won't permit child to read Bible" thing.

When I saw the headline, I thought this would be a similar situation -- but it sounds more like they made it up out of whole cloth this time. I guess it's kind of like the phony voter fraud claims. Once you plant the idea in people's heads, even if your original story is debunked, you need less and less real evidence every time you repeat it.

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4. Sounds like the Grandstaff family needs to read the part that says, "Thou shall not bear false

witness."