U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman ordered the Illinois State Board of Education to not enforce the recently amended Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act that I posted about earlier. Township High School District 214 is the only district under a preliminary injunction prohibiting it from implementing the mandatory moment of silence at the start of the school day. From the article:
So for the moment some 860 Illinois districts can essentially do as they wish under the current law, lawyers in the case said.
"District 214 is the only school district in the state that has clear instructions," an attorney for the district, Brian McCarthy said. As for the rest of the districts in the state, "who knows what they’ll be doing tomorrow morning."
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in District 211. As I have stated earlier, I am not a fan of the recent amendment for multiple reasons. Besides the ambiguity of the act itself, there are better things to spend time and money implementing than a moment of silence that takes away from the already limited class time.
0 Responses to “Silence in schools may be, er, silenced”
Leave a Reply