FYI: An Interesting "See You at the Pole" Case

[Paul Finkelman]

Brad, these kids meeting for prayer look more like pep rallies  for 
football games; and the encouragement they get from local preachers to 
go out and convert their fellow students is ineeed a kind of zealotry.
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> From: Brad M Pardee [mailto:bpardee at unlnotes.unl.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:06 PM
> To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
> Subject: Re: FYI: An Interesting "See You at the Pole" Case
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> Zealotry?  How is a group of kids meeting together to pray qualify as 
> zealotry?  And how does one child's uninformed bigotry have anything to 
> do with whether or not kids meet together to pray?  Surely you're not 
> suggesting that kids should hide their faith at school, as though it was 
> something to be ashamed of.
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> Brad
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> Paul Finkelman wrote on 10/31/2005 12:38:45 PM:
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>>  WHere I live (Oklahoma) some teachers in some public schools take
>>  attendance at the "See you at the Polls" meetings and some give extra
>>  credit for those who   attend.  Students who do not attend are often
>>  shunned by others. In one school a young man was holding the door for
>>  students to enter the school but then closed it in the face of a girl,
>>  saying, "I do not hold the door for Jews."   This is not a school
>>  sanctioned act -- rather it is the act of a student, but it does
>>  illustrate the social climate created by bringing religious zealotry to
>>  the school.
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