Principal sorry for 'school prayer' poem (from AP)

[anotherginger]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=School%20Prayer%20Poem

Principal sorry for 'school prayer' poem

ATHENS, Ga. -- A high school principal apologized Monday for reading a poem called "The New School Prayer" over the school's intercom, which brought complaints from some parents who said it violated the principle of separation of church and state.

Tommy Craft said he wanted not to promote religion but to provoke thought and discussion among students about the changing political climate in school when he read the poem the Tuesday before the Thanksgiving break.

"I apologized to them today in another statement," Craft said. "I said that there was no attempt to individualize or to bring ridicule on any particular person with the poem."
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you can google for more places to read this article:

http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&num=30&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1104/30poem.html

[Inland]

1. "It was only an attempt to ridicule you people generally."

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. If the head of the NAACP had to step down for one rule, why shouldn't

the principal have to step down for another?

[Rose Siding]

3. dupe, here's a link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1032139&mesg_id=1032139