Ethics

School Insists on Getting God In Somehow

By Ed Brayton

Remember last week when I reported that the judge had issued a preliminary injunction against a school for having a 3rd grade class sing a ridiculous country song called In God We Still Trust at an end-of-year event? Well now the school has replaced that song with another one called Chatter With the Angels, apparently an old African-American spiritual. The catch: this song appears in a state-approved textbook for use by elementary school music teachers and has been on the approved singing list for 20 years.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).