Student Sues Wisconsin School After Getting a Zero for Religious Drawing

[readytogo]

Not sure if this is where to put it, but.

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.

The lawsuit alleges other students were allowed to draw "demonic" images and asks a judge to declare a class policy prohibiting religion in art unconstitutional.

"We hear so much today about tolerance," said David Cortman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal advocacy group representing the student. "But where is the tolerance for religious beliefs? The whole purpose of art is to reflect your own personal experience. To tell a student his religious beliefs can legally be censored sends the wrong message."

Tomah School District Business Manager Greg Gaarder said the district hadn't seen the lawsuit and declined to comment.

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.

The boy tore the policy up in front of Millin, who kicked him out of class. Later that day, assistant principal Cale Jackson told the boy his religious expression infringed on other students' rights.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344350,00.html

[HisForever]

Where does it say in the Constitution that a student "signs away" his rights to free speech and freedom of religion in order to get an education?

This nonsense is really getting old.

[BuzzardHut]

Not sure if this is where to put it, but.

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.

The lawsuit alleges other students were allowed to draw "demonic" images and asks a judge to declare a class policy prohibiting religion in art unconstitutional.

maybe her demon did not like the competition

[mikalikat]

I am also getting very tired of this. That's why we do not do public school.

[MikeD]

"...his religious expression infringed on other students' rights."

So, according to administration officials, this young man had SIGNED AWAY HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, but, the constitutional rights of the OTHER students still stand??? I do believe, that would be a serious double standard that CAN NOT/SHOULD NOT hold up in court.