The article I found was on a fifth grader in Pennsylvania. Her church was putting on a Christmas party for kids with lots of games and prizes. She wanted to invite her classmates so she handed out flyers before the first bell for school rang. However, her teacher told her that she needed to stop because she needed permission from the principle first. She did.
When the father called the principle to see if they had been approved, his response was, "all flyers that are non-school related must be approved by the Superintendent's office. We recieved a call today stating that it would not be permissable to distribute the flyers." Meaning she was not allowed student to student distribution during non-instructional time nor was she allowed to use the take-home flyer forum or the literature distribution letter.
The father wanted to know why you could pass out invitations for personal parties with no questions asked but once it came to a Christmas party at his daughters church, it was denied. He got no response.
The schools policy is to ban all expression on the subject of religion, the policy is unconstitutional in that it therefore restricts speech.
I dont think its fair in the least bit. The little girl is in no way promoting her religion nor is she shoving it down her classmates throats. She is only inviting them to a free Christmas party, a night of fun.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Great Debaters
"We do what we have to do, to do what we want to do."
I really enjoyed watching this movie. The culture in this movie seemed most between white and black people. In the beginning the coach was trying to get his debate team to get to know each other, in the process he mentioned a bit of history. Walter Lynch created "lynching". Which was his way of teaching the whites how to keep their slaves in line. He taught them to keep their bodies strong but their minds weak. Eventually lynching turned into racism and murder just because whites felt they could, because they feel they were above and better than the blacks.
The debate team was a four member team of blacks. Their first debate was against Oklahoma City University about letting blacks and whites go to state universities together. They weren't even allowed on campus during this debate. It was never said why the debate wasnt on campus, but it could have been for a number of reasons. In my opinion I think it was because that it was a black debate team. I think they had their own negative thoughts about black people so they didnt want to "risk" having them at the university.
However, throughout the entire debate season Mr. Tolson tried to get Harvard to debate them. By the end of the movie Harvard finally sent them an invitation to debate them on campus. It seemed they did not care what race they were they only interested debating them. Which quite honestly was a pretty heated debate. But in the end Samantha Booke and James Farmer Jr. overtook Harvard.
I really enjoyed watching this movie. The culture in this movie seemed most between white and black people. In the beginning the coach was trying to get his debate team to get to know each other, in the process he mentioned a bit of history. Walter Lynch created "lynching". Which was his way of teaching the whites how to keep their slaves in line. He taught them to keep their bodies strong but their minds weak. Eventually lynching turned into racism and murder just because whites felt they could, because they feel they were above and better than the blacks.
The debate team was a four member team of blacks. Their first debate was against Oklahoma City University about letting blacks and whites go to state universities together. They weren't even allowed on campus during this debate. It was never said why the debate wasnt on campus, but it could have been for a number of reasons. In my opinion I think it was because that it was a black debate team. I think they had their own negative thoughts about black people so they didnt want to "risk" having them at the university.
However, throughout the entire debate season Mr. Tolson tried to get Harvard to debate them. By the end of the movie Harvard finally sent them an invitation to debate them on campus. It seemed they did not care what race they were they only interested debating them. Which quite honestly was a pretty heated debate. But in the end Samantha Booke and James Farmer Jr. overtook Harvard.
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