Greenwood, South Carolina’s school board chair has created a proposal to let team captains deliver “an opening or closing message” at a game for a couple of minutes “without censorship or review from district staff.” The only problem, this already exists.
There are two things in this story in Greenwood, South Carolina’s Index-Journal that deserve your attention.
The first is the absurd policy proposal from a school board member allowing students to pray before a football game. They don’t need a policy for that. It’s already legal. Just don’t involve the coaches and everything is fine.
Most of five members of the school board believe everything I just said, which is why they tried to convince board chair Scott Horne that this was completely unnecessary… and that leads to the second thing you should notice: Their conversation about his proposal became increasingly ridiculous because it became apparent they were trying to talk sense to an illogical person.
The crux of the conversation is this: Horne’s original proposal in January allowed for the football team’s captain (or someone else) to deliver “an opening or closing message” at a game for a couple of minutes “without censorship or review from district staff.” That proposal was shot down because, again, the law already permits that.
So Horne resubmitted his proposal at this month’s meeting with a slight change. He substituted “football games” with “school-sponsored athletic events.”
You might be thinking, How is that any better? It’s the same thing. That makes you smarter than Scott Horne, who doesn’t understand this.
Read the full story at the Friendly Atheist Blog
