In Webster Parish, Louisiana 17 year old Kaylee Cole refused to stand for the daily morning prayer at her school.
Every day starts the same: Announcements, birthdays and school events are broadcast over the public address system. What comes next is what she dreads.
“They say, ‘Please stand for the Prayer and the Pledge.’ And then we move right into it. And it’s the Lord’s Prayer,” Cole says.
Cole sits down. Raised as a Christian but now agnostic, she doesn’t want to hear it.
So what happens the first day back after Christmas break sends shockwaves through the community.
Students say the pledge. But this time there is no Lord’s Prayer. It is the first time in as long as anyone in Webster Parish can remember.
