People are being arrested for cheering at Graduations and Diplomas are
being held until Community Service is done as punishment for this "Crime"!
Is it any wonder we have so many depressed people in the World today?
Then this as stupid what is wrong with our schools ???? Prayer beads !!!!! Dumbing down of Americans kids with these silly rules !!
SCHOOL BANS STUDENT'S ROSARY FEARING IT MIGHT BE A GANG SYMBOL.
Yo'Adrienne..AFCL
2012/06/09 23:00:27
Last year, a sixth-grader from Fremont, Nebraska, was banned from wearing her rosary-like necklace at school. Now, months later, another religious flap is unfolding in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, where 15-year-old Jake Balthazor has been told that he cannot wear the rosary he purchased to support his cancer-stricken grandmother. In both instances, school officials’ fears that the necklaces would indicate gang membership were cited as the basis for the bans. He was upset when he came home from school,” Chad Balthazor, Jake’s father, explained.
“A teacher sent him down to the office, but the reason he was wearing it was for his grandmother.”
“A teacher sent him down to the office, but the reason he was wearing it was for his grandmother.”
Last year, a sixth-grader from Fremont, Nebraska, was banned from wearing her rosary-like necklace at school. Now, months later, another religious flap is unfolding in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, where 15-year-old Jake Balthazor has been told that he cannot wear the rosary he purchased to support his cancer-stricken grandmother. In both instances, school officials’ fears that the necklaces would indicate gang membership were cited as the basis for the ban.
“He was upset when he came home from school,” Chad Balthazor, Jake’s father, explained . “A teacher sent him down to the office, but the reason he was wearing it was for his grandmother.”
The decision to ban the black hematite rosary, which was purchased by the teenager in Mexico, was made by Coon Rapids High School leaders this past Wednesday. Jake has been proudly wearing the necklace in support of his grandma, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
While the student will no longer be able to wear the necklace — at least according to official policy — he is allowed to carry it with him in his pocket. Fox News has more about the intriguing anti-rosary policy:
The school district’s policy forbids any “apparel, jewelry, accessories or matter of grooming which by virtue of its color arrangement, trademark or any other attribute denotes membership in an organized gang,” Mary Olson, director of communication for the Anoka-Hennepin School District,
http://bcove.me/04giy539Both Jake and his grandmother, who has also stated her disdain for the school’s handling of the situation, are Lutherans.
"Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, AMEN!"
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Diane Spraggs Yates 2012/06/10 08:45:55
It makes me sick.
being held until Community Service is done as punishment for this "Crime"!
Is it any wonder we have so many depressed people in the World today?
Then this as stupid what is wrong with our schools ???? Prayer beads !!!!! Dumbing down of Americans kids with these silly rules !!
I smell a serious lawsuit, otherwise.
he's honoring his Grandma who is undergoing treatment for Cancer ..
this is just idiotic of a policy ..
OTHERS". Yeah right....sit on it BLOOMBERG! pointed side UP!
Guess yer screeeeeeewed until the 1st.
AMEN> (Don't understand your first sentence tho...could you explain?) I'm Catholic and consider myself CHRISTIAN.....huh?
This has gone too far.....with this "PROGRESSIVE" way of thinking....
There's only a handful that regularly put up questions and I can't get on those pages at all.