Posted on 01/08/2015 12:54:26 PM PST by lowbridge
Parents are accusing a teacher of violating their child’s First Amendment rights by allegedly refusing to allow him to read his Bible in school.
They claim that their son, Loyal Grandstaff, a middle school student at Bueker Middle School in Marshall, Missouri, was told by his teacher that he couldn’t read the book after he brought the Bible in and silently studied it during free time.
“I feel like it violated his freedom of religion but also his freedom of speech,” Justin Grandstaff, the 12 year old’s father, told WDAF-TV.
Loyal said that he wasn’t being loud and that he wasn’t sharing the book with his peers at the time.
“I like to read my Bible because it’s a good book,” the 7th grader told the outlet. “I was just reading, just reading because I had free time. A time to do what I wanted to, so I just broke it out and read.”
Bueker Middle School principal Lance Tobin said that he would look into the situation, though the family has not yet spoken with the teacher in question nor administrators; Justin Grandstaff said he plans to do so when school reopens Tuesday following the holiday break.
It is currently unclear what the educator allegedly said to the student and a voicemail left for the superintendent has not yet been returned to TheBlaze.
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Used to be that schools encouraged their students to read books.
People need to start telling their kids:
“If some teacher tells you you can’t read the Bible, just laugh at them and say ‘No’.”
I’d like to hear the whole story here before jumping to a conclusion. I’m not a liberal, after all.
That Bible is dangerous stuff. There’s even writing in it about God!
He should’ve just hidden it inside a Koran.
Government schools are evil.
Bibles, empty cartridges, toaster snack supposedly bitten into a shape of a gun .....school panic!
Our School had a Bible on the book shelf in Study Hall.
If he was reading it OUT LOUD during silent reading time or “study hour”, then that might be the problem.
Maybe he should’ve been reading Gay life or Boner magazine nothing would have been said.
Find a book jacket from a Quran and wrap that around it to see what the teacher will say.
I agree, although I will be interested in knowing what the teacher said - that will be the key to determining whether outrage is appropriate, I think.
Actually, it's a pretty racy book. But that's neither here nor there with regard to a Liberal moron posing as a teacher.
Used to be children first learned to read by reading the Bible.
When was the last time we heard about a teacher telling a child they could not read the Koran?
Somehow this reminds me of an old MAD magazine cartoon.
Several football players see one of their team members reading a PLAYBOY magazine They begin to razz and make fun of him for reading it!
This goes on for several panels till the last one, in which the reader proclaims “You’re right, guys! I’ll NEVER do it again!” as he pulls his Calculus book out from between the Playboy pages and tosses the Calculus book in the trash.
Perhaps this kid should have hid his bible between the pages of some sleazy magazine.
It use to be the Bible was one of the texts in school. How far we have come from our Judeo Christian heritage. History is now being rewritten. . . .no one seems to care.
My first thought as well.
Sounds like the teacher got all upset over nothing. The teacher wasn’t reading the Bible to the students. The kid in question wasn’t reading the Bible to the students. I don’t see where the school could be accused of any First Amendment violations so the kid should be free to read the Bible during his free time if he wants.
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