‼️OHIO‼️
📢Representative Gary Click is at it again.
🚨HOUSE BILL 187 is MANDATING A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR PRAYER IN OHIO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 🚨
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/hb187
Don’t for a second believe it’s as innocent as they are making it appear. Having a “Beachwood Democrat and member of the legislature’s Ohio Jewish Caucus” as the the other sponsor is a thinly veiled attempt to FOOL Ohio.
We are surprised at Rep. Eric Synenberg; who is doing a disservice to both his party and his faith by pushing a Christian Nationalist agenda. How will HB187 be implemented in practice? Will teachers and administrators comfortable pushing their own agenda use it to mandate prayer?
Just like RTRI was already allowed to happen at the discretion of the local school district – so is a moment of silence. But remember that Click is responsible for MANDATING Release time for Religious Instruction (RTRI) in Ohio and now he’s doing the same for a moment of prayer… er silence 🤫
From the article-
“Nik Nartowicz, lead policy counsel at Washington-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, said that Ohio students come from a variety of religious backgrounds. Many families also choose not to engage in prayer. The Constitution protects students from all these backgrounds.
“If a school just says, ‘OK, we are having a moment of silence,’ that’s one thing,” Nartowicz said. “But if the school says, ‘Well, the law says we have to have a moment of silence for prayer, reflection or meditation,’ when you say the word ‘prayer’ students are going to feel that they need to pray.”
Nartowicz is skeptical of Click sponsoring the bill. Click sponsored last year’s bill for released time for religious instruction, requiring all school districts to pass policies to allow students to leave class in the middle of the day to attend religious instruction off campus. The legislation passed after it was combined with another bill during the final hours of last year’s legislative session.”
LOOK AT THE SOURCE. 👀
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: Secular Education Association
- Facebook User: Click is corrupt, should be the slogan of anyone who runs against him.
- Facebook User: Click also runs an “unchartered, unaccredited” school out of his Baptist church. Unrestrained he will continue to impose his extremism on schools.
- Facebook User: And as an Ohio educator, I’ll talk right through it.
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