WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. — A high school student from Kentucky recently passed up an opportunity to participate in the regional cross country championships after she was assigned 666 as her bib number. Junior Codie Thacker attends Whitley County High School in Williamsburg. She states that she has prepared since June to participate in the regional championships, […]
MINNEAPOLIS — A pastor who works as a school bus driver during the week recently lost his job for praying with the children who ride his bus. George Nathaniel, 49, is the pastor of both the Elite Church of the First Born and Grace Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis. He has worked for the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage […]
FORT WORTH — A homosexual student in Texas was suspended last week for ripping pages of Leviticus out of his Bible during his Spanish class. Isaiah Smith is an 18-year-old senior at Birdville High School in North Richland Hills. Last week, he brought his Bible to his first period Spanish class to refute his fellow […]
WACO — Students at Baylor University recently presented a proposal to re-word the school’s conduct code to make sexual sins more equal. The Baptist university’s current sexual misconduct policy specifically prohibits sexual activity outside of marriage and mandates that students and staff provide examples of purity. “In all disciplinary procedures, Baylor University will seek to […]
LONDON — Christian groups in England are being told to stop evangelizing children in government-run schools. In a new report, the National Secular Society (NSS) said that Christian groups regularly use their access to public schools to preach the Gospel to pupils, and contended that the Department of Education needs to step in to stop […]
EASTVALE, Calif. — A middle school student was recently reprimanded by her principal for distributing flyers that warned her peers about California’s newly enacted ‘bathroom bill,’ which allows male students who identify as females to use the girls’ restroom and vice versa. According the reports, the eighth grader, named Caylin, took 18 flyers to her […]
MADISON — A case involving a Wisconsin teacher who admitted to viewing and sharing pornography on school district computers has been appealed to the state Supreme Court after it was ruled that the teacher’s firing was unfair. Andrew Harris was a science teacher at Glacier Creek Middle School in Cross Plains until May 2010. In […]
LINCOLN — Homeschooling parents in the state of Nebraska recently packed a public hearing in Lincoln, as well as two satellite sites in Grand Island and Scottsbluff, to express their disapproval of newly proposed regulations surrounding the choice to homeschool. The Nebraska Department of Education had called a conference over the rules, which had been […]
AUBURN, Ala. — A young woman whose mother who chose adoption over abortion after being sexually assaulted has won the title of homecoming queen at her university. Now 22 years old, Mary Ann Dutton has garnered the 100th Miss Homecoming Queen title at Auburn University on a platform dedicated to adoption advocacy. Dutton’s biological mother […]
FLORENCE, Colo. — A nationally-recognized Christian legal group is demanding that a Colorado high school protect female students students from a boy who is using the girls’ restroom and allegedly making harassing comments. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), based in Sacramento, California, recently sent a letter to officials at Florence High School to ask that […]