High School Student Punished for Saying “God Bless America”

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High School Student Punished for Saying “God Bless America”


This isn’t America we have been living in lately. It’s some kind of bizarre nightmare of leftist authoritarianism. Here’s proof: Todd Starnes reports that a Florida high school student was recently punished as a thought criminal for saying “God bless America.”


A spokesperson for the Nassau County School District told me the student at Yulee High School deviated from the approved script on the morning of Feb. 9th and uttered the words “God Bless America” — apparently causing angst among two atheist students.

Two screeching moonbats is twice as many as it takes in a tyranny of the minorities.


“It wasn’t part of the scripted morning announcements,” district spokesperson Sharyl Wood said. “The principal took the appropriate steps in speaking with the student and disciplining the student.”

The nature of the discipline was not disclosed. Maybe he had to write “I hate America and God” on the blackboard a few hundred times.

To the extent Principal Natasha Drake isn’t a militant progressive, she is a coward, unwilling to fight for a kid’s right to say something leftists don’t want to hear.


Instead of reporting their angst to the principal, the atheist students reached out to the American Humanist Association. The AHA’s legal arm – the Appignani Humanist Legal Center — fired off a testy letter to the principal and school district on the students’ behalf.

“It is inappropriate and unlawful for a public school to start the school day with an official statement over the intercom stating, ‘God Bless America,’ for such a statement affirms God-belief, validates a theistic worldview and is invidious toward atheists and other nonbelievers,” the American Humanist Association wrote in a letter to the principal of Yulee High School.

The AHA said the student violated the Constitution and broke the law by invoking God’s name over the public address system. They demanded the school immediately cease and desist under the threat of a lawsuit.

The response was cringing compliance.

Under our system, deep-pocketed moonbat organizations can’t lose. It costs a fortune to fight a lawsuit; so much cheaper and easier to knuckle under to the fascists — with whom not only most judges but most people working in education sympathize anyway.


“The daily validation of the religious views of God-believers resigns atheists to second-class citizens,” the AHA wrote in their letter.

Therefore, they have the right to override any reasonable interpretation of the Constitution and forbid all mention of God, lest their fragile faith in nihilism be shattered.
 
meanwhile


The Seminole County School District Makes Students Recite Islamic Prayer



The Seminole County School District is doing major damage control after a student’s father found out that the school was teaching his son about Islam in a very favorable light and even forced students to recite a prayer that the teacher had written on the board. The father was angry and took his concerns to the school.

This is the prayer students were forced to recite:

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Ron Wagner, the father said that he is not a very religious man but the fact that the school forcing Islam on his son and the other students was very troubling. He did not even know his son was being taught this until he saw a text the teacher sent reminding him about the prayer rug assignment and to study an assigned packet on Islam.

The textbook, World History is from Prentice-Hall publishing. WFTV has more on the subject:


Inside of the book is a chapter dedicated to the “Rise of Islam,” including prayers and scriptures from the Quran. What’s more disturbing for Wagner is that the first 100 pages discussing Judaism and Christianity are missing. The district blames a manufacturer defect in 68 books that are only a year old.


The Seminole County School District reportedly conducted an investigation after hearing Wagner’s concerns and determined no indoctrination or inappropriate instruction was taking place. Further, Dr. Michael Blasewitz, who is in charge of the high school curriculum, told the father that the “Pillars of Islam are benchmarks in the state curriculum,” according to Wagner.

Blasewitz also reportedly “stormed out” during an interview about the Islam lessons, telling the news outlet, “If anything, [the curriculum] is a little imbalanced toward Christianity and Judaism.”


I don’t blame him for storming out before the interviewer had a chance to point out there are no teachings of Christianity or Judaism in the book. That might have been embarrassing.
 
I think it is interesting in the first case that the students in the first case who were upset took the complaints outside the school to another organization.
 
High School Student Punished for Saying “God Bless America”


This isn’t America we have been living in lately. It’s some kind of bizarre nightmare of leftist authoritarianism. Here’s proof: Todd Starnes reports that a Florida high school student was recently punished as a thought criminal for saying “God bless America.”


A spokesperson for the Nassau County School District told me the student at Yulee High School deviated from the approved script on the morning of Feb. 9th and uttered the words “God Bless America” — apparently causing angst among two atheist students.

Two screeching moonbats is twice as many as it takes in a tyranny of the minorities.


“It wasn’t part of the scripted morning announcements,” district spokesperson Sharyl Wood said. “The principal took the appropriate steps in speaking with the student and disciplining the student.”

The nature of the discipline was not disclosed. Maybe he had to write “I hate America and God” on the blackboard a few hundred times.

To the extent Principal Natasha Drake isn’t a militant progressive, she is a coward, unwilling to fight for a kid’s right to say something leftists don’t want to hear.


Instead of reporting their angst to the principal, the atheist students reached out to the American Humanist Association. The AHA’s legal arm – the Appignani Humanist Legal Center — fired off a testy letter to the principal and school district on the students’ behalf.

“It is inappropriate and unlawful for a public school to start the school day with an official statement over the intercom stating, ‘God Bless America,’ for such a statement affirms God-belief, validates a theistic worldview and is invidious toward atheists and other nonbelievers,” the American Humanist Association wrote in a letter to the principal of Yulee High School.

The AHA said the student violated the Constitution and broke the law by invoking God’s name over the public address system. They demanded the school immediately cease and desist under the threat of a lawsuit.

The response was cringing compliance.

Under our system, deep-pocketed moonbat organizations can’t lose. It costs a fortune to fight a lawsuit; so much cheaper and easier to knuckle under to the fascists — with whom not only most judges but most people working in education sympathize anyway.


“The daily validation of the religious views of God-believers resigns atheists to second-class citizens,” the AHA wrote in their letter.

Therefore, they have the right to override any reasonable interpretation of the Constitution and forbid all mention of God, lest their fragile faith in nihilism be shattered.

What this actually exposes is how truly socialist this nation has become...

...when an individual student is deemed to be so solid a part of the statist collective that he "violated the Constitution and broke the law by invoking God’s name over the public address system."

I believe in free speech, but...

What's so incredibly sad is that even the few progressives left who do understand the outright political disingenuousness of that "but"...

...cower to their comrades still.
 
High School Student Punished for Saying “God Bless America”


This isn’t America we have been living in lately. It’s some kind of bizarre nightmare of leftist authoritarianism. Here’s proof: Todd Starnes reports that a Florida high school student was recently punished as a thought criminal for saying “God bless America.”


A spokesperson for the Nassau County School District told me the student at Yulee High School deviated from the approved script on the morning of Feb. 9th and uttered the words “God Bless America” — apparently causing angst among two atheist students.

Two screeching moonbats is twice as many as it takes in a tyranny of the minorities.


“It wasn’t part of the scripted morning announcements,” district spokesperson Sharyl Wood said. “The principal took the appropriate steps in speaking with the student and disciplining the student.”

The nature of the discipline was not disclosed. Maybe he had to write “I hate America and God” on the blackboard a few hundred times.

To the extent Principal Natasha Drake isn’t a militant progressive, she is a coward, unwilling to fight for a kid’s right to say something leftists don’t want to hear.


Instead of reporting their angst to the principal, the atheist students reached out to the American Humanist Association. The AHA’s legal arm – the Appignani Humanist Legal Center — fired off a testy letter to the principal and school district on the students’ behalf.

“It is inappropriate and unlawful for a public school to start the school day with an official statement over the intercom stating, ‘God Bless America,’ for such a statement affirms God-belief, validates a theistic worldview and is invidious toward atheists and other nonbelievers,” the American Humanist Association wrote in a letter to the principal of Yulee High School.

The AHA said the student violated the Constitution and broke the law by invoking God’s name over the public address system. They demanded the school immediately cease and desist under the threat of a lawsuit.

The response was cringing compliance.

Under our system, deep-pocketed moonbat organizations can’t lose. It costs a fortune to fight a lawsuit; so much cheaper and easier to knuckle under to the fascists — with whom not only most judges but most people working in education sympathize anyway.


“The daily validation of the religious views of God-believers resigns atheists to second-class citizens,” the AHA wrote in their letter.

Therefore, they have the right to override any reasonable interpretation of the Constitution and forbid all mention of God, lest their fragile faith in nihilism be shattered.

"Punished" how exactly?
 
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