Our daughter is a second grade teacher. She has two students that leave the room during the Pledge. All holiday parties have been stopped. If I were to guess after reading this article, a student saw the girl bow her head to pray, went home and told their parents, and the parents complained to the principal or school board. In the case of the school where our daughter teaches, a representative from the school would have called the parents of the student to discuss options for the student to pray. They would not have gone to the 6 year old and embarrassed her. This is simply speculation on my part and something I could see happen in our local school district. This scenario is not uncommon.
Extreme, yes, but the sign of the times. Johnny can't read or do math, but Mom and Dad complain to the school because Johnny was sitting beside someone at lunch that prayed to their God.
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