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TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 05:37 AM Oct 2015

Katy student alleges school activity called faith into question

The seventh grader's head barely reached the top of the podium Monday night as she told Katy ISD board members about a classroom exercise that she felt wrongly called her religious faith into question.

Two days later, during a Wednesday afternoon news conference held in the same meeting room, Superintendent Alton Frailey praised the student's courage but said a school investigation had found aspects of her description of what happened in the West Memorial Junior High school class not to be corroborated.

Jordan Wooley's testimony had spread like wildfire across Facebook and other social media platforms after she shared her story during the video-recorded school board meeting.

"Today I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith and told me that God was not real," the 12-year-old began.

Read more: http://m.mysanantonio.com/neighborhood/katy/schools/article/Katy-student-complains-to-school-board-after-6595512.php

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Katy student alleges school activity called faith into question (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2015 OP
Yet another reason why religion doesn't belong in the classroom at all. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #1
Education does that. Downwinder Oct 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Yet another reason why religion doesn't belong in the classroom at all.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 06:15 AM
Oct 2015

Even a Christian in a deep red state can't bring it up in even the least wy without having some DEEPER red person accuse them of trying to undermine faith.

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