School Can't Blot Out Christmas Party Flyers

[The Straight Story]

School Can't Blot Out Christmas Party Flyers


SCRANTON, Pa. (CN) - A sixth-grade girl won an injunction to hand out flyers for her church's Christmas party after a school forbade her from doing so last year.

The injunction order says that student, described in court filings as K.A., "is permitted to distribute religious flyers to her friends and classmates during non-instructional time at Barrett Elementary Center," and the school cannot legally prohibit her from distributing literature that promotes religious events and activities.

K.A.'s father, Michael Ayers, filed suit on her behalf in March 2011. He said the dispute arose when K.A. planned to distribute Christmas party flyers among her classmates in the Pocono Mountain School District last December. When K.A.'s teacher saw the flyer, she told K.A. that the principal needed to approve it first. Principal Heidi Donohue than told K.A. and Ayers that the superintendent had to approve nonschool flyers, but that he had not given such approval to K.A.

Ayers said Superintendent Dwight Pfenning emailed him and told him that Policy 913 gave him the authority to prohibit the distribution of the flyer because it was "for an event run by an organization the school was unfamiliar with, rather than the flyer's promotion of a religious holiday." The flyer in question promoted what was dubbed an "iKidz Rock Night Christmas Party," a "just for kids" event with face-painting, pingpong, foosball, snacks, games and prizes.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/10/24/40866.htm

[ejpoeta]

1. I guess that means kids can distribute flyers for other events too...

like Wiccan Family fun night?

[rpannier]

2. Celebrating Anton Szandor LaVey's Centennial

La Vey is founder of the Church of Satan

[MedicalAdmin]

3. You could have lots of fun with this.

Screw with them enough and the telebangelists will call for a removal of all all flyers like this for us.

Let's see what we can come up with. Fertility festivals. Festival of lights. Day of the dead.

[rpannier]

4. Buddha's Birthday

That one's fun because it's 4.18 on the lunar calendar so the date would change every year

[TheMadMonk]

7. Let's start with Saturnalia and work up from there? /nt

[Ikonoklast]

5. I want to see the Skinheads do a little recruiting.

The World Church of the Creator is having a little party, send your kiddies!

They have rights too, yanno, the racist pricks.

The religionists may have opened a door they'll never be able to close.

[LiberalEsto]

6. The Unitarian teen coffeehouse nt

[MilesColtrane]

8. Flying Spaghetti Monster Praise Dinner and Bacchanal!

Bring your own meatballs and lubricant.

[Javaman]

9. Oh goodie! I'm printing up my Santeria flyers now! nt

[Fumesucker]

10. The girls will be suckers for The Invisible Pink Unicorn..