Florida Student Told No ‘God Bless America’ In Morning Announcements

February 14, 2015
Miami

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By Letitia Stein
TAMPA, Fla., Feb 13 (Reuters) – A Florida high propagandize told a tyro this week to stop adding a word “God magnify America” when reading scripted morning announcements, sketch protests and raging phone calls from around a nation, propagandize officials pronounced on Friday.
The principal during Yulee High School, located in north Florida nearby Jacksonville, asked a tyro to hang to a book after receiving a six-page minute on Monday from a American Humanist Association, a organisation that describes itself as advocating for humanists, atheists and physical governance.
The minute pronounced dual Yulee students who are atheists had complained about a use over a past several weeks of a phrase.
“Don’t ad-lib. Just review what’s on a script, and don’t put anything else on it,” was a summary given to a tyro announcer, pronounced Sharyl Wood, a mouthpiece for a propagandize district in Nassau County, only north of Jacksonville.
The student, who was not identified by a propagandize district, was not punished, she said.
Yet reports that he had been trained perceived inhabitant courtesy in an opinion square by Todd Starnes, horde of a radio uncover “Fox News Commentary.”
Yulee High subsequently was flooded with phone calls, Wood said, and in new days some people have waved signs in criticism nearby a school, located in a regressive segment of Florida.
The authorised core of a Humanist Association called a word “God magnify America” a eremite summary that “is unsympathetic toward atheists and other nonbelievers” and pronounced it violates a U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment requirement for subdivision of church and state, according to a group’s letter.
“Students are positively giveaway to contend ‘God magnify America’ in their possess personal context any time they wish to,” pronounced David Niose, a association’s authorised director. “But when we are articulate about morning announcements, it is not a giveaway debate forum.”
Niose combined that many people would be dissapoint if propagandize announcements featured an publicity of Islam, atheism or another minority eremite perspective in a United States.
The superintendent in Nassau County has been researching a emanate and skeleton to respond to a controversy, according to a propagandize district spokeswoman.
“People have a right to demonstrate their opinions,” Wood said. “We are not perplexing to harm or conceal any student. This is not over yet.” (Reporting by Letitia Stein; Editing by Leslie Adler and Will Dunham)