Posted on 08/19/2023 7:26:31 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
A North Carolina middle school student was suspended for three days over a conversation he had with classmates about Jesus Christ.
The 12-year-old is a seventh grader at Envision Science Academy in Wake Forest. He is also a devout Christian.
The young man’s father told me that he received a phone call from the assistant dean saying he needed to attend a meeting about his son’s “continued behavior.”
Several of the boy’s classmates had started a conversation during the previous school year about Christianity and his son had explained how they needed a relationship with Jesus Christ to go to Heaven.
“She told me that my son had violated Title IX,” the dad told me. “The two kids who had complained interjected themselves into the conversation and ridiculed my son about his faith and how stupid it was.”
The dad told me school’s dean that the other students had been taunting his son, but that did not seem to matter.
“She said they were going to suspend him for borderline harassment,” he told me. “They took the word of the other kids above my son’s word.”
It certainly appears that the other students set a trap for the Christian kid and he was suspended for three days.
“It’s sick and sad. Never seen anything like it,” the dad told me. “But I know the world we live. It’s pretty wicked at times.”
The family reached out to the American Center for Law and Justice for help.
“Once we heard about this situation of the student’s suspension, we took action,” said ACLJ’s Jordan Sekulow. “Immediately after this student’s parents contacted us, we wrote a legal demand letter to this school. We made very clear to the school its obligation under the First Amendment was to respect the right of this child to share his faith, rather than stifle his ability to communicate his beliefs with others. The school is barred by the First Amendment from treating his faith as “harassment.”
“We did not merely give this school a basic lesson in constitutional law,” Sekulow said. “We also made clear that we will be proceeding with further legal action against the school unless it immediately ends this student’s suspension, removes this from his academic record, and apologizes to him and his family immediately.”
This kind of behavior, especially toward vulnerable students, can never be tolerated, the famed attorney added.
“We will continue to hold this school, and any school that engages in similarly blatantly illegitimate behavior, accountable to the Constitution,” he said.
Not allowed to say anything about Jesus in school to your classmates. okay..............
But I’m sure it’s encouraged and accepted, to talk to your classmates about how you want surgery appear as the opposite sex. I’m sure it’s totally accepted to talk about the latest inane reality show on cable TV with others. But any mention of Jesus, that is verboten.
Friends, Do you know Muhammad?
There is no way a student can violate Title IX.
It only applies to employees/administrators.
When we send our kids to THEIR SCHOOLS, we have to understand that our kids (and us, for that matter) are expected to follow THEIR RULES, which is something that we have no control over, unless we want a visit from the FBI.
May ACLJ succeed in their suit. C.ear clear vio.ation of the child’s rights- he was the one being harassed, not the other way around. He was harassed by the two punks, and then again later by the school personnel!
You’re in Bidenland.......another name for hell.
Telling someone about right and wrong and the eternal nature of our souls is “Harassment”. Ridiculing mocking someone because of their religious faith, on the other hand, is just fine. Got it.
You’d think this “Dean” would know what he would be against if he did what he did. Either that or he felt empowered by all the other wholeness and PC crap going on
Thank you American Center for Law and Justice!
Thank you Jay Sekulow and Jordan
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Link to the ACLJ original:
Ayn Rand to William F. Buckley: “You are too smart to believe in God.”
The “sex positive” rainbow people are basically engaging in idol worship. And that is forced down everyone’s throat by the school administration. That’s their religion. But, since it is the official established religion of the US government, it’s OK.
Why would anyone fight to keep your kids in this kind of atmosphere?
One stupid complaint like this and its internet schooling and youre done in half the time.
That’s what I read and understand as well. 😡
Isaac Newton: “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
The Smartest people I’ve ever known
Believe in God.
Envision Science Academy
590 Traditions Grande Blvd
Wake Forest
NC
27587
(919) 435-4002
Fax: (984) 500-1001
info@EnvisionScienceAcademy.com
Title IX Coordinator: Ms. Xaviera Johnson xjohnson@esaeagles.com 919-435-4002
The Smartest people I’ve ever known
Believe in God
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. C.S. Lewis set out to disprove God exists ...
By his own words he was
” dragged, kicking and screaming into Salvation “
He proved to himself by logic, facts and history that God is real.
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