La. School Superintendent told Buddhist student to find a school with more Asians.

[RandySF]

The school board in this rural west Louisiana parish best known for the Zwolle Tamale Festival is facing a federal lawsuit brought by the parents of a student they say was harassed by fellow students, teachers and administrators at his public school because he isn't Christian.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana brought the suit against the board on behalf of Scott and Sharon Lane and their five children, including 6th grader C.C., an adopted child of Thai heritage who is Buddhist. The suit seeks to stop the school system from harassing C.C., promoting the Christian faith and to reimburse the family for the cost of transporting the youngster to a different school.

According to the suit filed Wednesday in federal district court in Shreveport, Rita Roark, C.C.’s science teacher at Negreet High School — a rural school that serves grades kindergarten through 12th — is an out-and-proud young earth creationist who teaches her students the earth was made by God 6,000 years ago, that the Bible is “100 percent” true and that evolution is impossible. The family also claims in the suit that Roark routinely peppered her tests with fill-in-the-blank questions like, “Isn’t it amazing what ________ has made!!!!!!!” The expected answer for the blank is, obviously, “the Lord” or "God" and, according to the suit, when C.C. failed to provide the preferred answer he was belittled by Roark in front of classmates.

The suit also claims that when the Lanes complained to parish Superintendent Sara Ebarb, the super’s response was, “This is the Bible Belt.” Ebarb, according to the suit, suggested C.C. change faiths or transfer to a school 25 miles away where “there are more Asians.”




http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/16291-sabine-parish-the-bible-belt-s-big-brass-buckle

[DonCoquixote]

1. won't it be funny

when this place asks for Asian money for development, which soon, will be a lot more likely then they would care to think?

[Logical]

2. If this was a movie plot I would not believe it. People are idiots! n-t

[Shrike47]

3. Another southern school getting an expensive lesson...

[JI7]

4. if kids are taught this early on it's no wonder these places vote republican

[Thinkingabout]

5. An area of high native American and hispanic population, this is not reasonable to treat other

Religions like this. In fact I am not happy with test questions dealing with religious training in schools.
I hope this is resolved not to ever happen again. When the question comes up about prayers in schools something like this proves the decision not to have prayer in school because of abuse perhaps one child.