- Oct 17, 2011
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"The Freedom From Religion Foundation has settled a lawsuit with Emanuel County School District in Swainsboro, Ga., after stopping teacher-led prayer and proselytization in its public schools.
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The complaint alleged that teasing classmates and pressure to pray from teachers led Jamie to drop out of kindergarten, while teachers told Jesse, a first grader, to start praying and not to listen to Jesse's mother, whom one teacher described as a "bad person." "
I'm sure the school's legal team took a 15 second look at this and said 'we better settle, because we're not gonna win.' Teacher-led prayer and the teaching of creationism is illegal, but it still happens in little corners here and there, where the locals mostly turn a blind (or even an approving) eye to it.
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The complaint alleged that teasing classmates and pressure to pray from teachers led Jamie to drop out of kindergarten, while teachers told Jesse, a first grader, to start praying and not to listen to Jesse's mother, whom one teacher described as a "bad person." "
I'm sure the school's legal team took a 15 second look at this and said 'we better settle, because we're not gonna win.' Teacher-led prayer and the teaching of creationism is illegal, but it still happens in little corners here and there, where the locals mostly turn a blind (or even an approving) eye to it.