MADISON, Wis. — A Tomah High School student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his art teacher censored his drawing because it featured a cross and a biblical reference.
According to the lawsuit, the student's art teacher asked his class in February to draw landscapes. The student, a senior identified in the lawsuit by the initials A.P., added a cross and the words "John 3:16 A sign of love" in his drawing.
His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.
Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester
Sometime after that meeting, the boy's metals teacher rejected his idea to build a chain-mail cross, telling him it was religious and could offend someone, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit also alleges school officials allow other religious items and artwork to be displayed on campus.
A Buddha and Hindu figurines are on display in a social studies classroom, the lawsuit claims, adding the teacher passionately teaches Hindu principles to students.
In addition, a replica of Michaelangelo's "The Creation of Man" is displayed at the school's entrance, a picture of a six-limbed Hindu deity is in the school's hallway and a drawing of a robed sorcerer hangs on a hallway bulletin board.
Drawings of Medusa, the Grim Reaper with a scythe and a being with a horned head and protruding tongue hang in the art room and demonic masks are displayed in the metals room, the lawsuit alleges. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344350,00.html
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Re: Another Amazing Instance of censoring Christia
Gays get rights,while people of faith,seem to have none.
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Re: Another Amazing Instance of censoring Christia
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Too bad most people can't do that. I'd do it if I could.
But you know if you'd stop going out to eat and not drive that new car you could at least pay for religious education.
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One reason (of many) we are leaving the Madison area.....
And no, homeschooling is not for everyone. I'm not knocking it and believe it is on average, a better alternative to public schools, I also know people who are VERY UN qualified to be teaching their kids....
Re: Another Amazing Instance of censoring Christia
When we send our children to any school system or class we agree to abide by their rules. It is clear that the policy for this class was that the artwork be free of violence, blood, sexual connotations, or religious beliefs. This is a High School, not a college. These a children, not evangelists. Our kids provide a better witness to Christian living by obeying the rules not by being disobedient and/or disruptive. If this were my son I’d ask him why you chose to break the rules of the class and why he chose to disobey his teacher when she (the authority over him) asked that he remove the religious reference. I would have him write her an apology and admonish him strongly to obey those in authority over him. Also I’d want to know why he’d make an issue over his metal’s teacher rejecting his idea to build a chain mail cross when it’s clear that the school doesn’t desire any overt religious symbols displayed in assigned work. Doesn’t he understand the rules? Does being a Christian mean that the rules don’t apply to him? Certainly there are other Christian, Jewish, or Muslim students who are displaying a greater degree of restraint and respect for the rules than this individual child.
The child should receive a zero and if his parents can’t teach him to respect the rules they should be strongly admonished to send their child to a religious school where religious displays of faith in assigned work isn’t against the rules.
What ever happened to Christian civility? This student isn’t censored, this student is rebellious.
And the references to historical, cultural, or mythological figures are most likely regarded as being more literary or cultural than being overtly religious statements.
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