Georgia school pays up after teacher tells 1st grader his mom is bad because she doesn't believe...

[WillParkinson]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/georgia-school-pays-up-after-teacher-tells-first-grader-his-mom-is-bad-because-she-doesnt-believe-in-god/

Georgia public school agreed to stop two teachers from praying in class and promoting their religious beliefs to children, but only after a secular group filed a lawsuit.

A kindergarten teacher and first-grade teacher at Swainsboro Primary School led students in prayer before lunch last year and then singled out students whose parents complained, reported Patheos.


The teachers ordered those children to sit outside the classroom in a hallway while other students prayed, and one of the teachers told students their classmates couldn’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance because it contained the phrase, “under God.”

Another teacher told one child that he should “make a good decision” and join his classmates in prayer, according to a complaint filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

[trotsky]

1. And yet somehow the Christians here will come out thinking THEY were the persecuted ones.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. This is why all that bullshit about "nobody HAS to participate" is a flying crock o shit.

[kdmorris]

8. Exactly

Tell everyone that a bunch of 6 year old children don't "have to" participate and then make the 6 year olds who don't participate feel like crap about themselves and their families.

[sakabatou]

3. Why do teachers keep doing this when they know they'll get in trouble?

[jeff47]

4. Because Jesus™. (nt)

[progressoid]

5. cuz the buybull told them to.

[Fumesucker]

6. Because mostly they don't, pushback is fairly rare

Parents have to choose their battles bearing in mind that their child is also a combatant and the opponents will not hesitate to punish the child as we see happened here.

[Solly Mack]

9. Those teachers should have been fired.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. That was my first thought as well.

I am amazed, that in 2015, this is still going on at all.

[PeaceNikki]

11. Tim Wise's response sums my feelings on it

[lindysalsagal]

12. That shit wouldn't fly in the north east.

They'd be out before the end of the school day.

[AlbertCat]

13. That shit wouldn't fly in the north east.

I bet it would in rural areas.