Bible classes being moved from Morgan County schools

[The Straight Story]

Bible classes being moved from Morgan County schools
Associated Press

MOORESVILLE, Ind. - Bible classes taught by a private group to third- and fourth-graders during school hours are being moved about a month after a lawsuit was filed over the practice.

The move off the grounds of the Mooresville Consolidated School Corp. is permanent and comes as the district nears a settlement on the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said Curt Freeman, the school district's superintendent.

"We're very close, we think, to getting an agreement resolved," he said.

The group offering the classes - Morgan County Schools Weekday Religious Education - has moved its program from a trailer at Neil Armstrong Elementary School to a nearby church, head instructor Mary Lee Wesner said.

She said the group was trying to find land near school property in the town about 10 miles southwest of Indianapolis where it could place its trailer. Organizers decided to move the classes after a meeting with the school district's attorney.
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The program, which is offered in 16 schools in Morgan County, requires parental permission for the students to leave the classroom for about an hour once a week for the Bible classes. Wesner said some 1,500 third- and fourth-graders attend the classes, or about 89 percent of those to whom it is offered.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/16086257.htm

[kellenburger]

1. We had "weekday religious education"

"....in Morgan County, requires parental permission for the students to leave the classroom..."

That's not how it worked when I had "weekday religious education",
you had to have a signed permission slip NOT to attend. Otherwise
by default on to the Jesus bus.

Is Indiana the only State that does this?

They do it at least once a month at area schools in
north Central Indiana.

[Toots]

2. It should be called what it truly is "indoctrination" not education

Education is reading writing and arithmetic not studying the flying spaghetti monster.

[kellenburger]

3. I agree 101%

maybe that's why they are putting a stop to it in some places.

I don't understand how they can take time away from school for this stuff.