Reply #15: If there is usually less work handed out before [View All]

[beam me up scottie]

a spring break and that's standard practice, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but when they decide policy based on religion then it becomes one.
" no tests, quizzes or other assessments may be given on major religious days "
Which major religious days?

This may seem trivial to christians but to atheist and secular persons it's just another reason to exclude minorities.
I would have thought that school administrators would have learned this by now, or maybe they did and just don't care.

"If you don't want to say the pledge just sit there until we're finished."
"If you don't want to join us in prayer, just sit there until we're finished."
"If you don't want to say grace, just sit there until we're finished."

These words were repeated hundreds of times during my childhood, and I can't forget how it made me feel like an outsider.