A public school in Louisiana allegedly advised a Buddhist family to change their beliefs if they didn\u2019t want their child to face harassment from zealous teachers.<\/span>
<\/span>The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against Negreet High School in Sabine Parish on behalf of two parents, Scott and Sharon Lane, and their son, \u201cC.C.\u201d The lawsuit claims the school has \u201ca longstanding custom, policy, and practice of promoting and inculcating Christian beliefs,\u201d including the teaching of creationism.<\/span>
<\/span>Sixth-grade teacher Rita Roark has told her students that the universe was created by God about 6,000 years ago, and taught that both the Big Bang theory and evolution are false, according to the lawsuit. She told her students that \u201cif evolution was real, it would still be happening: Apes would be turning into humans today.\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>One test she gave to students asked: \u201cISN\u2019T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u201d The correct answer was \u201cLord,\u201d but C.C. wrote in something else. Roark responded by scolding the boy in front of the entire class.<\/span>
<\/span>When informed that C.C. was a Buddhist and therefore didn\u2019t believe in God, Roark allegedly responded, \u201cyou\u2019re stupid if you don\u2019t believe in God.\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>On another accusation, she allegedly described both Buddhism and Hinduism as \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>When the outraged parents confronted Sabine Parish Superintendent Sara Ebarb about the incidents, she allegedly told them \u201cthis is the Bible belt\u201d and that they \u201cshouldn\u2019t be offended\u201d to \u201csee God here.\u201d Ebarb advised that C.C. should either change his faith or be transferred to another District school where \u201cthere are more Asians.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThose “educators” had better hope that there is no God, because if he does, then they are all surely going to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If there was a way to throw these pitiful excuses for a human being in gaol, I’d go for that too. A teacher harassed one of her students for being a Buddhist, and when the parents complain the administration suggest that the family give up Buddhism: A public school in Louisiana allegedly advised a Buddhist …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,970,968,969,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-corruption","category-education","category-evil","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}