Do American public school students and employees sacrifice all religious rights?

Sheryl Young Mon
Oct 18, 2010

In October, a California school principal sued his school district for threatening to terminate him. The reason his contract was threatened? Because he pursued religious activities outside of school on his own time.

According to Alliance Defense Fund Legal News, Foothill Elementary School principal Craig Richter used off-duty hours to appear in a video promoting community prayer. A Goleta Union School Board member saw the video and claimed it was against "separation of church and state" for the principal to do so.

This case is the latest among thousands in which U.S. school officials, legislators and judges have misinterpreted the religious rights of students and school personnel. the rest

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