FREMONT, Mich. – Bible study is back at Fremont Public Schools.
The rural Newaygo County school district has twice canceled the popular Bible study class for elementary students in recent years following complaints from “civil rights” activists, but superintendent Ken Haggart recently announced that the program will be back for the 2017-18 school year, Mlive reports.
“Michigan law specifically authorizes public schools to release students for up to 2 hours per week for religious instruction at an off premises location which is exactly what happened in Fremont,” says attorney Timothy Denney told WZZM.
Students at Daily Brook Elementary School were left hanging in 2015 when the Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists forced the district to end the Bible classes because they allegedly violated the law because they were held in the school’s gymnasium, Haggart told the news site.
School officials resolved the issue and re-instituted the program this year with monthly sessions at Fremont Wesleyan Church during students’ lunch break. Students who returned parental permission slips were transported to the church by a pastor in a private bus, according to the news site.
But another MACRA complaint this year convinced Haggart to end the program again.
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Oh great. This is clear violation of separation of church and state
ReplyDeleteBut its ok to teach islam?? And yes schools are shoveing it down our kids throats!
DeleteWhere in the Constitution is the separation of church and state written?
ReplyDeleteIf the school is spending any public funds on this I could see there being an issue.
ReplyDeleteWould the school being willing to set up the same thing to send children of other religions to study as well could be another sticking point.