It’s bad enough that public schools don’t educate children well, but they also do things like this.
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Some football coaches are in trouble for something they did with their players. They said a prayer.
That has the school district taking action.
And the policy, while it may be the law, has plenty of people up in arms.
Every school district has a responsibility to follow the law, and separate private faith from public school. It can be a fine line at times. One crossed in Sumner County, it seems, when the coaches didn’t say a word during a student-led prayer, but they did bow their heads.
In a town like Westmoreland, faith and football seem to matter.
“We’re just respectful, God-fearing people up here,” resident Tony Bentle said.
Bentle called games for Westmoreland High School for 42 years.
“A lot of history. A lot of changes. A lot of football,” he said.
So when he, like a lot of people, heard what happened after a recent game at the middle school.
“It actually blew my mind, that we had come to that point,” he said. “Nobody in this town is offended if you pray. Nobody.”
During a student-originated, student-led prayer, four coaches bowed their heads. They didn’t say a word.
But the principal and the district found out.
“We’ve been telling our principals to kind of be looking for those things, because that is kind of a shift in how things have been done,” Sumner County Schools spokesperson Jeremy Johnson said. “It can in no way appear like it’s endorsed by Sumner County Schools personnel.”
Where do you think this happened? It happened in TENNESSEE. But this is what you can expect from public schools – they are run by the government, and religion is a rival to the government in terms of having conflicting views of what people should be doing with their lives.
Christians really need to get serious about cutting funding for these public schools and voting for politicians who support school choice. Michele Bachmann has the best record on that issue.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
I might be showing ignorance here. My question is: how is a coach bowing his head during a student lead prayer indicate that the public school is identifying with one single religion? I thought many different religions have the bowing of the head to indicate prayer. Separation of church and state, I thought, meant government couldn’t be represented by a single religion? I’m not sure how what this coach did fits into separation of church and state.
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I have to agree with Jared, this is political correctness out of control. The coaches are already not allowed to lead the prayer (which they aren’t doing, it was a student led prayer) and they aren’t nodding in approval, they are bowing their heads. How is bowing your head a sign of approval.
Now we can make a few assumptions as to why their heads are bowed:
a) The coaches were praying. This is the most obvious assumption
b) The coaches were bowing in respect because someone else was praying.
c) The coaches all fell asleep simultaneously.
Even option c) is a more logical conclusion than that they were bowing to show approval. Maybe in some non-Western nation people bow to show approval, but not here folks. It’s more of a yea-nay thing.
This is another example of overreaching government interventionism. Showing us that there is no real rhyme or reason to the relentless attack against Christianity. That a student led prayer in Tennessee is an attack against our civil liberties is a total misinterpretation of separation of Church and state. The original intent of separation of Church and state was to protect the Church from a meddlesome state and oh, look… what do we have here?! Shameful. John Adams (who said that the survival of this democracy would depend on a virtuous people) must be turning in his grave.
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LOL! Maybe they could claim to have fallen asleep simultaneously and then they wouldn’t be threatened by the educrats.
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IT will continue to get worse as long as all is done is to grip on here. Start sending letters to School Board members, Dept. of Education and anyone else associated with the school system and tell them we are not going to take this anymore.
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