http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14102&AlertID=934 # Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=759 December 18, 2008 Sixth-Grader Penalized For Mentioning Jesus in His Christmas Paper at School www.LC.org Hattiesburg, MS – Eleven-year-old Andrew White wrote a poem about Christmas but received a deduction for writing about Jesus. His teacher, Latasha Atkins, insisted that mentioning Jesus was not allowed and asked him to write a new poem. Andrew and his classmates were assigned a creative expression paper for the Winter Writer’s Board as part of his sixth-grade language class at Thames Elementary School in the Hattiesburg Public School District. He could choose among three...