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Student Sent Home From School Because Jesus Costume Was Disruptive

By Howard M. Friedman

At Paramus, New Jersey's West Brook Middle School, eighth grader Alex Woinski dressed up as Jesus for Halloween. According to Monday's Christian Post, school officials said his costume was disruptive and told him he needed to remove his beard and crown of thorns. The student refused and he was sent home. Principal Joan Broe said that he was sent home not because of the religious nature of the costume, but because other students' reactions meant that the education process was being interrupted. Woinski, who has developed an interest in religion, comes from a family where his mother is Catholic and his father is Jewish. The boy recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).