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Related: About this forumGroup charging schools with religious discrimination picks Broward as latest target
Posted on Monday, 05.05.14
By Michael Vasquez
mrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com
A conservative religious-rights group targeted Broward County on Monday in an ongoing campaign contending that faith is under attack in Americas elementary schools.
The facts involving a Park Lakes Elementary student seeking to read a Bible in school, like other similar cases before it, are in dispute but that didnt prevent the story from going viral on conservative websites and news media.
At a media event organized by Texas-based Liberty Institute, Park Lake fifth-grader Giovanni Rubeo and his father complained that his classrooms free reading time excluded the Bible and threatened to file a federal religious discrimination lawsuit against the Broward school district.
Giovanni said he tried to read his new Bible repeatedly over the last few weeks during free-reading class periods but said his teacher didnt approve. The student and his father claim that the teacher instead forced Giovanni to pick up another book.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/05/4099850/group-charging-schools-with-religious.html#storylink=cpy
cbayer
(146,218 posts)The school says that is not accurate, but that he was in an "accelerate reading" class.
I trust Liberty not at all and think they have probably invented another bogus case.
msongs
(67,441 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)Who would have guessed?
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)during any free times.
The issue here appears to be that this wasn't a "free time" but a designated class.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)May 6, 2014|By Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel
Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie apologized Tuesday for an incident in which a 12-year-old was told he couldn't read the Bible.
Gio Rubeo said he was told three times by his teacher at Park Lakes Elementary in Lauderdale Lakes to put away his Bible. His father demanded an apology, saying the teacher had violated his civil rights.
"First, let me apologize to the student and his family. This was a situation that should have been handled differently," Runcie said at Tuesday's School Board meeting. "It does not represent the values of our school system. Let me be clear. Broward County Public Schools respects and upholds the right to bring personal religious material to school, including the Bible."
He said his administration has reached out to the faculty at the school to ensure they are familiar with district policies and state and federal laws.
more at link
rug
(82,333 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)they offered an apology.
Either that, or the lawyers got together and came to an agreement, lol.