PLAINVIEW, TX – A 13-year-old boy was suspended from school after he was caught reading the Bible during recess. Plainview Middle School says Joshua Patterson violated school policy by reading the Bible in school.
School officials say the student was warned several times that he could not practice religion during school hours, but refused to comply. A letter was sent home to the child’s parents warning them that Joshua could be suspended or even expelled if he continued this behavior.
Patterson’s parents, who are devout Christians, told their son to continue reading his Bible because it was his Constitutional right. Megan and Daniel Patterson say they intend to file a lawsuit against Plainview Middle School.

“We are going to fight this with all of our might,” said the child’s father Daniel Patterson. “How can a school tell a student that something as simple as reading his Bible is wrong? We teach our children about the miraculous wonders of God, and Joshua has taken a special interest in religion. His dream is to one day be a preacher. This school has violated the rights of our child, and we will ensure this never happens to another student.”
The school refused to elaborate on why they chose to suspend Joshua, other than saying his actions were directly against school policy.
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I thought there was freedom of religion in the US

mstik: I thought there was freedom of religion in the US

Me too

Satanic people
If it were a material that has "There is no God" boldly crested on it, They would have no qualms.

nnamdibig: violated school policy by reading the Bible in school.

Should have been the first policy introduced in Africa by the law makers after the end of colonization!

Nothing worse than having your people mentally and spiritually colonized by the colonialist enemy who then enslave and colonize your people!

AmunRaOlodumare:

Nothing worse than having your people mentally and spiritually colonized by the colonialist enemy who then enslave and colonize your people!

And then coercing them into adopting the image of an attractive white male as the object of prayers. It's the Trojan horse all over again.

If indeed that was his offence then the school has at least one very silly policy.

striktlymi: If indeed that was his offence then the school has at least one very silly policy.

If this is not his first warning, he should have obeyed or atleast found another school.

Imagine the chaos and confusion if everyone took their religion to school.

I doubt most of you people here will want your child/ward to sit beside a boy who comes to school with Juju if his parents are Pagans.

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Even in the States?

mstik: I thought there was freedom of religion in the US

Don't mind the hypocrites

Imagine .......

what if the boy had been reading ponographic magazines?

Infringement on his human right

Mynd44:
If this is not his first warning, he should have obeyed or atleast found another school.

Imagine the chaos and confusion if everyone took their religion to school.

I doubt most of you people here will want your child/ward to sit beside a boy who comes to school with Juju if his parents are Pagans.

I would only worry if the individual puts his so called juju in my face. As long as he does his thing at his own time and not in class or at other peoples convenience then he can as well swallow his juju for all I care. The lad did absolutely nothing wrong reading the bible at his own time, to himself.

mstik: I thought there was freedom of religion in the US

No oh! Practicing of religion in public is forbidden...but there's freedom for homosexuality and other perverse life styles. Thats why you'll hear that a teenager went shooting his classmates just cause they would not play with him.lol whites kids huh!

striktlymi:

I would only worry if the individual puts his so called juju in my face. As long as he does his thing at his own time and not in class nor at other peoples convenience then he can as well swallow his juju for all I care. The lad did absolutely nothing wrong reading the bible at his own time, to himself.

His own time, yes. But school regulations........

No one asked you not to be Christian, they just don't want religious stuff in school.

Thank God is not any muslim school...I trust my nairaland christian wanna be friends...d topic go don reach 20 pages by now....

The same school will talk about Halloween and hold parades for it
The parents will win the lawsuit sha

if it is in a muslim country hell would have been boiling evry agbero will be insulting them but since its the almighty US OF A its not a big deal i weep for nigerians

Mynd44:
His own time, yes. But school regulations........

No one asked you not to be Christian, they just don't want religious stuff in school.

They can't make unreasonable demands and expect people to abide by them, just because they feel uncomfortable with it. Their act is senseless and very wrong. Haba, how can an individual be deprived from going to school for such flimpsy excuse? Not that he took a gun to school.

It's really pathetic

Swiftboy: No oh! Practicing of religion in public is forbidden...but there's freedom for homosexuality and other perverse life styles. Thats why you'll hear that teenager went shooting his classmates just cause they would not play with him.lol whites huh!

sammieguze: Infringement on his human right

if people are deprived of worshiping idol, not sure you will say this same thing

Lol you can say that again! They've lost their core values to 'freedom' forgetting that there's no absolute freedom.

mstik: It's really pathetic

Na playboy magazine they wan make he dey read abi..

I sure will as long as human sacrifice, mutilation and other human rights are not violated

jayseehe:

if people are deprived of worshiping idol, not sure you will say this same thing

Wetin concern the school if the boy always gets his sums right?

If he doesn't fail his exams... I see no reason for such infringement.

striktlymi:

They can't make unreasonable demands and expect people to abide by them, just because they feel uncomfortable with it. Their act is senseless and very wrong. Haba, how can an individual be deprived from going to school for such flimpsy excuse? Not that he took a gun to school.

what about unreasonable demands made by Nigerian Christian schools; were going to church is compulsory

Kai, US is taking something's too far. Anyway they've succeeded in making that boy a celebrity. If they disturb that boy too much please let him seek for asylum in Nigeria o.