Mooresville school sued over Bible classes ...

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A Mooresville mother has sued her son's public school because she says it allows a religious group to teach students about the Bible on school grounds and singles out children who don't participate.

The mother wants Neil Armstrong Elementary School officials to stop signing up children for the religious education classes, an involvement which she says violates a constitutional separation between church and state. She also wants the program, hosted in a church trailer during school hours, to move out of the school's parking lot. The lawsuit does not identify the mother.
Indiana law says public schools can release children from school for off-campus religion classes if a parent asks for it.
"They are permissible as long as the school is not involved in any way," said Jacquelyn Bowie Suess, an American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana attorney who filed the complaint on behalf of the Mooresville mother. In Mooresville, "the problem is that it's taking place on school grounds, and that the school is so involved with it."
Mooresville school officials directed questions to the school attorney, Steve Harris, who declined to comment


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It's ridiculous that schools keep trying to put this stuff in schools. Why do they have to do that?? If they want to teach this to their own kids they should do it in their churches.