P.E.I. school board won't stop Bible distribution after complaint
January 19, 2012 - 1:37pm
CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island's largest school board doesn't plan to stop the Gideon Society from offering Bibles to students, after it received a complaint from one parent.
Ricky Hood, the superintendent of the Eastern School District, says a parent with a child at L.M. Montgomery Elementary School complained about the Gideons sending home a form to parents asking if they'd like a Bible.
The superintendent says the practice of distributing the Bibles has been occurring for 46 years and he says it doesn't affect instruction in the classroom.
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By way of background, babblers may want to brush up on three other threads (the last two still open) discussing Gideon bible distribution in Canadian schools:
Bible distribution in classrooms divides Ontario community
Gideons authorized to distribute bibles in Nunavut schools
McGuinty won't weigh in on bibles in public school
it's obviously about pushing phoney religious ideas on impressionable schoolkids while they're least able to judge the ideas for themselves.
besides, it's not like bibles are hard to find. If they want one, they know where to get one. They shouldn't be distributed in schools.
but by the sounds of it, they'veonly had one complaint. maybe a few more or a court challenge would change their mind.
There's also this story about a girl in the US now subject to daily death threats because of a similar issue:
http://www.alternet.org/belief/153803/why_is_an_atheist_high_school_stud...