 Can public school students hand out Christian Valentines?
Can they talk about the love of God on Valentine’s day in a class discussion? What about wearing a T-shirt with a Christian message? Or mentioning God in an assignment? Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes. All of those instances are covered by the Free Speech Clause. Students are allowed to talk about their faith in school. It’s their constitutional right. Many parents and students get student rights confused with teacher rights. Only teachers’ rights are restricted and can violate the Establishment clause, which means that teachers are not allowed to try to officially establish religion in schools. However teachers can answer students questions about God or participate in a class discussion which was initiated by a student. Teachers can even pray among themselves and have bible studies with other Christian teachers inside schools. Students, and by extension parents, are not in a position of authority, and therefore can never violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Therefore they can freely talk about God and their faith. Students have only one restriction: they cannot disturb the class. For example, a student can freely bring up God’s perspective during a class discussion or assignment. But a student cannot stand up and start preaching in the middle of math class. Whenever there’s an appropriate time in class to bring up their opinion, students can also share their faith. By the way, even though teachers are not allowed to officially establish religion in schools they are equally not allowed to establish non-religion such as atheism in schools. Often teachers think that acting and talking as if God does not exist is the politically correct way, however that stance also violates the establishment clause; in fact just as much as if they would have talked about God. It’s just that Christians don’t complain about that one as much as atheists complain about any reference to God. Here you’ll find some free Christian Valentines: Busybooksandmore has some pretty Printables. Scroll down and you'll find pages listed. Page 3 to 9 are good. Notconsumed has Valentine's Basket Printables The Oriental Trading Company has some Christian ones for sale. Moneywisesteward has a simple 8x11Printable Faithfilledfoodformoms has scripture verse hearts Father's Love Letter for kids is a nice printout too. https://www.fathersloveletter.com/kids-fll.html Why not show your kids the Father’s Love Letter video here: https://www.fathersloveletter.com/hd-video.html Comments are closed.
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