Children at a Texas elementary school are no longer being proselytized by their music teacher after FFRF intervened.
A parent had reported that a music teacher at Frostwood Elementary in Spring Branch ISD taught a religious prayer song in sign language to first-grade students. The parentās child signed and sung a prayer before dinner after which our complainant learned that she was taught the prayer at school by the schoolās music teacher.
FFRF let Superintendent Jennifer Blaine know that āThank You For The World So Sweetā is an incontrovertible prayer.
FFRF Attorney Chris Line wrote in a letter to the school district that āNo public school employee may urge religious points of view on students.ā
General counsel for the school district responded to Line by saying āThough the song is in a state-approved textbook, the textbook is outdated (from 2006), so the teacher agreed to discontinue the use of the outdated textbook.ā