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by Bethany Monk

Students in a Florida school district will be able to read the Bible and any other religious books on an approved list.

After saying the Bible was not allowed, the Broward County Public School District has admitted in writing that students are, in fact, allowed to read it during free-reading time.

Jeremy Dys, senior counsel with Liberty Institute (LI), said there’s an important lesson here.

“I hope that other school districts recognize the freedom that students have at school to read their Bibles — and other religious books — during free reading and Accelerated Reading programs,” he told CitizenLink. “I hope that teachers and districts continue to honor students’ constitutional rights.”

Giovanni Rubio, a fifth-grader at Park Lakes Elementary School in Lauderdale Lakes, brought his Bible to class last month. But his teacher stopped him and ordered him to put it on her desk. She then called his dad and left a voice message informing him that students are not permitted to read religious books in her classroom.

The district at first claimed the Bible was not allowed because it was not on the Accelerated Reader Program list. But LI discovered the Bible is, indeed, on the list.

In the letter the district sent to LI on Sunday, officials said the school board “does not ban the Bible”:

It has no policy and has never made a statement to that effect. With regard to the Accelerated Reader program (AR), if a book is on the AR list (including books of the Bible) a student is free to read such book during AR reading time.

“Now the Broward County Public Schools says it will allow the Bible as part of the Accelerated Reader Program and recanted what Tracy Clark, its spokesperson, said to the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel on May 6, 2014,” Dys explained. “We are pleased that they are now complying with the law.”

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Wednesday, May 21st 2014 at 8:34AM
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Great.

I have suggested for 50+ years that There SHOULD be religious study in Secondary Education as MOST school Funding issues are religious in nature AS has all past slaverAmericana History, Scholarship and Science.

Wednesday, May 21st 2014 at 7:21PM
powell robert

Rob,

I so agree with you. There must be a spiritual solution / answer for problems spiritual in nature and the good book as stood the test if time ( remains the best selling book of all times). People are dying in some countries to get it and read it.

Friday, May 23rd 2014 at 2:21PM
Jeni Fa

History, Scholarship and Science are STANDARDS of any Education.

Religion, Creation, spirit and nature in Modern World has Not been Examined in the Modern World!

We especially in America have Developed a "slavery, racism, and Ignorance" is OK for Greatness.....

People I Believe have BEEN dying in American "to get it and read it."

Sunday, May 25th 2014 at 1:10PM
powell robert

Well I hadn't thought of it that way... Americans dying to get it and read it. Hmmm

Tuesday, May 27th 2014 at 8:11AM
Jeni Fa

AMericans, Africans, Asians, Aluets --etal- dying to get it and read it.

Case in Point a Discussion I have had on these BIA pages for sometime has been highlighted with the following NEWS story...I preface this by saying I do not like to use the kingJames Version name of the Prophet of 2014+ years ago of a virgin birth OR---Isa Ibn Maryam------pope and Israeli leader say jesus, I would say latinJesus

BUT anyway here is there REAL time discussion

Pope, Netanyahu spar over Jesus' native language

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Jesus two millennia ago.

"Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew," Netanyahu told Francis, at a public meeting in Jerusalem in which the Israeli leader cited a strong connection between Judaism and Christianity.

"Aramaic," the pope interjected.

"He spoke Aramaic, but he knew Hebrew," Netanyahu shot back.

Like many things in the Middle East, where the pope is on the last leg of a three-day visit, modern-day discourse about Jesus is complicated and often political.

A Jew, Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the Roman-ruled region of Judea, now the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

He grew up in Nazareth and ministered in Galilee, both in northern Israel, and died in Jerusalem, a city revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, and to which Israelis and Palestinians lay claim.

Palestinians sometimes describe Jesus as a Palestinian. Israelis object to that.

Israeli linguistics professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann told Reuters that both Netanyahu, son of a distinguished Jewish historian, and the pope, the spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, had a point.

"Jesus was a native Aramaic speaker," he said about the largely defunct Semitic language closely related to Hebrew.

"But he would have also known Hebrew because there were extant religious writings in Hebrew."
Zuckermann said that during Jesus' time, Hebrew was spoken by the lower classes - "the kind of people he ministered to".

Yes, AMericans, Africans, Asians, Aluets --etal- dying to get it and read it in the Language of Africa Asia and not the misunderstood, king James' English or the latinCanons................

Tuesday, May 27th 2014 at 6:58PM
powell robert

How interesting the conversation these two had, eh! I love it! We are all connected because we all enter the world the same way as we will leave a particular way. I say that it's all good.

Tuesday, May 27th 2014 at 10:31PM
Jeni Fa

Mrs. Huffington added to your Religion works with Education Theme here

Muslim Is the New Catholic

On a summer evening in late July 1840, Catholic parents, teachers, and community members congregated in the basement of St. James Church in Lower Manhattan awaiting the address of Rt. Rev. Bishop John Hughes. Interrupted by applause throughout, Hughes stood before the crowd calling for what the largely immigrant Catholic population in the city longed for -- public funding of parochial schools.
175 years later, not unlike that summer night in 1840, students and their families assembled at P.S. 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens rallying to persuade the city to accommodate the Muslim population by closing school on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the two most celebrated holidays in Islam. In response, critics have warned of the "Islamization of New York," and have accused Mayor Bill de Blasio, who vowed to add the holidays to the school calendar, of succumbing to "Islamic supremacist demands." Of course, this ignorance is hardly representative of public sentiment on the issue, but even reasonable onlookers may question why religion and public schools are said in the same breath -- is there not a "wall of separation" that stands between church and state?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/khurram-dara

Thursday, May 29th 2014 at 8:14AM
powell robert