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icymist

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Fri Dec 30, 2011, 01:38 PM Dec 2011

Being pagan in Georgia: Do schools promote some religions while denigrating others?

A common plaint on this blog is that religion has been banished from our public schools. The usual comment is that we have kicked God out of the schools.

But some argue that not all religions are met with hostility in the classroom, only those far outside the mainstream.

That complaint was made this month via an Internet campaign on behalf of a pagan family in Carroll County. Stephanie Turner said her 11-year-old son was singled out and punished after he took off the neopagan holiday of Samhain. Once the boy returned to class, his teacher allegedly questioned him and said, “Paganism is not a religion.” Then, the teacher assigned a class essay on “How Christmas started,” according to the complaint.
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/12/28/pagan-students-and-public-schools/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog

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