Religious leaders and elected officials condemned the decision to remove the Bible from Davis County classrooms during a Wednesday news conference.
“I hope it will become an integral part of our schools,” said Tad R. Callister, a former Sunday school general president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of the Bible.
, who will officially leave Congress on Sept. 15. If that happens, Ivory wants to add this issue to the agenda. Assassination Classroom features a tentacled monster who threatens to destroy the Earth. The beast starts working as a junior high school teacher and gives students a chance to kill it before the planet is destroyed. The cartoon book“God bless America that we can challenge any book, and God bless America that we can be involved in that process,” Mason added.Ivory may have difficulty convincing other lawmakers that this issue is so urgent that it requires swift legislative action. Sen.
“A request to appeal the earlier decision has been submitted, and an appeals committee, made up of three members of the Board of Education, will review that decision before making a recommendation to the full school board for its consideration. The district continues to follow the state law, and it has done so with 60 titles its reviewed and 37 titles that have been removed from school libraries.
Pastor Dave Mallinak of Ogden’s Berean Baptist Church said the Bible was a potent antidote to the “indoctrination” of children that is taking place in public schools, musing that’s why the Davis School District allowed it to be removed.
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