Students in the weight room at Tecumseh High School in Tecumseh, Mich., won’t be forced to listen to Christian music, thanks to FFRF.
FFRF received a report from a local resident that a physical education teacher played the religious music during workout sessions in the weight room during the summer. “Playing Christian music to an audience of students using the weight room is a violation of student and parental rights,” wrote FFRF Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert in a letter to the Tecumseh Public Schools superintendent. “It is illegal for a district employee to promote Christianity through religious music while acting in his or her official capacity.”
Superintendent Kelly M. Coffin thanked Markert for bringing the matter to the school district’s attention and said that the school principal reminded the teacher of “his constitutional duty to remain neutral toward religion while in a public school setting.”
