Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

Jul 02 2009

Is Mom attempting to turn kindergarten class into a church?

Published by Kevin Bussey at 4:00 am under bible, public schools

Newtown Square mom brings church to kindergarten class in an activity called “All About Me Week.” One of the options for the lesson was for the child’s parent to come in and read from the child’s favorite book. Little Wesley’s mom, Donna Kay Busch, chose to read from the Bible. The school principle asked her not to read from the Bible on grounds of the risk to separation of Church and State.

Donna Kay Busch has sued and has lost her case twice. Now it may be heading to the Supreme Court. This case it not as black and white as one might normally think. On the one hand, this was not a teacher reading to the class which would be akin to endorsement, but it is a kindergarten class and clearly little Wesley could not find the Bible to be his favorite book. He would be a super genius if at kindergarten age he had actually read the entire Bible, understood it, and believed it to be his favorite book.

One Response to “Is Mom attempting to turn kindergarten class into a church?”

# Mrs. Osipovon 02 Jul 2009 at 2:27 pm

You hit the nail on the head! What IF someone had read from the Qoran? That’s the danger of mixing “religion” into everything. And please realize there is a distinct difference between religion and spirituality. We – the U.S. – had seemed to be intent on forcing the rest of the world to be christians. We can’t do that, and I don’t believe God expected us to. We can teach – we can’t force.