Special Needs Kid told saying God in School Against the Law

clipped from jojosays.wordpress.com There is a story of a young boy in 5th grade who has special needs…think along the lines of autism. And because of his disability, his innocence far surpasses most 5th graders. He believes everyone is good and kind and that everyone believes in Jesus and God. It has never even occurred to him that there are people out there that don’t believe. So in class in a public school, he started talking about Jesus and his teachers immediately told him to stop. So the next day at school, the boy had kept his promise and in fact had not mentioned God or Jesus at all, and when he was suppose to start his spelling test, they sent him down to the school social worker. The social worker told the boy that it was against the law to speak of Jesus or God in the public school. The social worker informed the dad that there was separation of church and state issues and ranted on about the forefathers.

"The bottom line is the dad got nowhere but did inform them that they had best call him first if they ever are about to discipline his son for speaking about Jesus as it will not be tolerated."

Now I normally don't post stuff like this, but this got to me just a bit. I know a couple of Special Needs children and what the teachers did to this child really steams me.

What steams me even more is that the clause in the US Constitution has nothing to do with speaking about one's faith in schools or other government buildings. It has to do with not establishing a State Religion. Some people get worked up if you say "God Bless You" to someone.

Let's uphold the Constitution without trying to destroy the free will of our kids!