Originally Posted by Deputy Nutz
"His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.
Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester.
Funny I didn't know a teacher had the authority to do this. In fact I think this might be impossible to do, at least to a minor, did the kids parents sign this? Did the families lawyer read it before it was signed?
The boy tore the policy up in front of Millin, who kicked him out of class. Later that day, assistant principal Cale Jackson told the boy his religious expression infringed on other students' rights.
I didn't realize that boy must have took his painting and marched up and down the hallways of his school pushing it into the face of all his classmates. The bottom line nobody had to see the artwork besides the student and the teacher. He doesn't have the right for his work to be displayed in the school for the public eye to view.
Jackson told the boy, his stepfather and his pastor at a meeting a week later that religious expression could be legally censored in class assignments. Millin stated at the meeting the cross in the drawing also infringed on other students' rights.
This is where it is debatable, how in fact did it infringe on others rights Outside of the other students making fun of the artwork and the student, and the teacher's reaction to the work? If the boy began preaching to others in the class, specifically about the print, then yes, his religious behavior then became disruptive to the classroom. The argument over the acceptablenesses of the work was can not be associated with the actual religious message disrupting the classroom. Freedom of expression, first amendment rights about the student's cross might be infringed by the school and Millin.