You may recall the lawsuit filed a few months ago against a school in Tennessee for a wide range of practices including Bible distribution in classrooms and teachers teaching straight out of the Bible during class. That case has now been settled with a consent decree. Basically, the school admits to a bunch of violations and agrees not to do them anymore. You can read the consent decree here.
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TN School Settles Church/State Suit
Posted on: March 9, 2010 9:02 AM, by Ed Brayton
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And those poor, poor xians get persecuted once again....
How many times does this have to happen before the neighboring districts, for instance, realize that they also need to stop proselityzing in their classrooms? I guess it's a symptom of being reality challenged that they just can't see how such a simple principle is good for both their religion and everyone elses'.
A consent decree? Does that mean the school decided not to fight the case in court, or agreed to arbitration?
Posted by: FastLane | March 9, 2010 9:23 AM
It seems to me that someone could successfully run for a local school board in these places on a platform of a) not wasting taxpayers' money on frivolous lawsuits, and b) getting government out of our religion. Given the conservative mindset, that might be a good counter to the platform of "them libruls is try'n to take God out of the skools."
Posted by: James Hanley | March 9, 2010 9:31 AM
The godbots are doing god's work or at least that's what they say in excuse of their unconstitutional behavior. If you believe your eternal reward depends on spreading the word, you spread the word. No consent decree can beat this insanity. The school in Florida just went through the same thing: Spout religious stuff, get caught, agree to a consent decree, do it again.
Siz months, tops and this district will be at it again.
Posted by: MikeMa | March 9, 2010 9:58 AM
Sorry: Six months...
Posted by: MikeMa | March 9, 2010 10:27 AM
Now that I thing about it, when I was young I remember people coming to my classroom at Central Elementary in Gulfport MS and giving everyone little red pocket bibles.
I may still have it somewhere actually ...
Posted by: Alareth | March 9, 2010 11:23 AM
FastLane,
Consent decrees, as I understand them, are not usually a result of arbitration. In this case (I assume that you have read the consent decree)it seems obvious that the school knew they would lose badly if they contested this in court so they essentially surrendered, instead of waste all that money and time in litigation.
Jim51
Posted by: Jim51 | March 9, 2010 12:05 PM
Fastlane, an example of another consent decree -- the city of Chicago has to abide by one for their hiring practices, to (supposedly) prevent the corruption formerly involved. Of course, by the standards here, MikeMa's estimate is awfully optimistic.
Posted by: psweet | March 9, 2010 12:40 PM
@ Alareth
I grew up in Georgia and still have my little red Wholly Babble -- well it's just the New Testdumbment but that's the important part.
Those Babble-dispensing people could easily impress me, all they have to do is go to Saudi Arabia and start handing them out to school children there. That way they could actually get to fulfill their persecution fantasies.
Posted by: Fifth Dentist | March 10, 2010 2:06 PM