bill letting kids in Tennessee miss hour of school a day to go to church heads to governor's desk

[yortsed snacilbuper]

A bill requiring public schools in Tennessee to allow students to miss up to an hour a day to go to church has cleared the General Assembly.

Programs that allow for off-campus prayer or private religious education during school hours are typically known as “released time.”

Current Tennessee law allows students to take released time if it’s approved by the local school board. The new measure would allow it “regardless of whether the local board of education has adopted a policy.”

Released-time initiatives began in the US in the 1910s and expanded through the 1940s, when they met their first constitutional challenges. In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that schools were not allowed to use public resources to support such programs.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tennessee-bill-kids-miss-hour-school-day-go-to-church-2020-6?bblinkid=229009753&bbemailid=22582076&bbejrid=1543050503

[struggle4progress]

1. "Oh, look! Oh, see! See Sally! See Sally handle rattler-snakes!"

[Tanuki]

10. Shake a snake

[struggle4progress]

11. +!

[SharonClark]

2. So much for the much touted local control of schools.

The hour will probably be during science class.

[spanone]

3. republican house, republican senate, republican governor....marsha blackburn/lamar alexander

My state is an exposé of republican rule

Survey: Tennesseans among least-educated in U.S.

Tennesseans are lagging behind most other Americans in the amount and quality of education they get, according to a new survey.

The state ranks as the No. 8 least-educated state in the U.S. according to WalletHub, a financial-oriented website that compiles rankings of U.S. states and cities based on the social and economic well-being of their residents.

The education survey, released today, measured 11 metrics to come up with the rankings – including the percentage of residents with high-school diplomas as well as those with associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The survey also factors in the quality of education based on U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of public-school systems as well as their ranking of the top 200 U.S. universities.

Tennessee is No. 39 overall for the subcategory of “quality of education and attainment gap,” thanks in part to its No. 35 ranking for “average university quality.” But the state only mustered a No. 43 ranking for both the subcategory “education attainment rank” and the survey as a whole.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2017/01/24/tennessee-eighth-least-educated-state-in-america-no-43/96992168/

[keithbvadu2]

4. Any church. Any church at all. Whatever you want to call a church.

[struggle4progress]

8. "Billy gotta sing at White Lightnin Chapel on Fridays"

[madinmaryland]

16. I'm a Pastafarian. Ramen, Tennessee

[Girard442]

5. I'll conduct services for the Satanic Temple.

They'll be real popular with the kids when they hear that human sexuality will be discussed.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. Hail Satan!

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. They used to do that in Salt Lake Cityen I was in

HS. The Mormons had a building across the school parking lot which was tied into the school bell system.
The Mormon kids all went over there for one class every day. They took Bew Testament. Old Testament. Church History and Book of Mormon. They got credit for Old and New Testament.

I had to take an extra class because they wouldn't let me take study hall.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. In Utah the Mormon Church has

Missionary Training School adjacent to Public Schools and early release for Training is common,at least it was in our old neighborhood.

[Thomas Hurt]

13. Same here in my small home town in CO. Mormon church had a trailer...

across the street from the high school. Mormon kids could take an class period there if they wanted to.

Wasn't on school property, taxpayers weren't paying for it, and the class was not required of anyone by the school district.

Have no problem with that or this as long as it is open to all students no matter their faith.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

9. Hmm ... I grew up going to public schools in Tennessee and ...

I never heard of this. I don't think any student in any of my classes from first grade through high school ever left during school hours to go to a church service.

There was a program whereby you could go to a free summer camp if you memorized enough bible verses, but I don't think that still exists.

[sarisataka]

12. Does this mean

The Islamic children will be allowed to attend Mosques on Fridays?

[MyOwnPeace]

15. I remember it very well

here in western PA in the late 50's - one afternoon per week about 1/3 of the class "got to leave" to go to religious training at the local Catholic church. For me, I couldn't decide who the lucky ones were - those that had to go or those that didn't!