'This is a violation of their constitutional rights and does not represent Kansas schools' fundamental principles.'
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Elementary school students in Kansas reportedly chose the likes of Jesus, President Donald Trump, and Charlie Kirk as role models during an assignment — but a guidance counselor reportedly squashed those picks, KWCH-TV reported.
The incident at Marshall Elementary School in Eureka took place in late October, the station said, citing a civil rights complaint the American Center for Law & Justice filed Tuesday.
The ACLJ is representing a parent and an elementary school student in the case, KWCH said.
The station reported that a guidance counselor assigned sixth-grade students to call out their role models in a project called “Find Your Voice" while one student designated as a "student teacher" wrote the names on a board.
The ACLJ provided the following narrative of what it said happened, KWCH noted:
The station said it spoke with a Eureka parent of a sixth-grade student who recalled that another student wanted Jesus as a role model, but that choice also was not allowed as part of the assignment.
The ACLJ's complaint accuses the school district of religious discrimination, political/viewpoint discrimination, violation of free speech rights, and retaliation, KWCH noted.
Oh, and the law firm also accused the powers that be of encouraging students to not tell their parents about the incident, the station said.
Specifically, the ACLJ called out "egregious conduct in engaging in viewpoint-based discrimination against students who identified conservative political figures as role models, and the subsequent directive instructing students not to report concerns to their parents," KWCH reported.
In addition, the ACLJ maintained that while students were allowed to list whomever they wanted in their written assignments, they were prohibited from calling out the names of "religious or political heroes publicly on the board," the station said.
The ACLJ further argued that "the selective prohibition created immediate confusion among students about whose voices were valued and whose were not," KWCH said.
The ACLJ said the directive "instructing children not to report concerns to their parents ... violates fundamental principles of parental rights, educational ethics, and child safety," KWCH added.
Is anyone surprised that this sort of crap goes on in public education?
But we all know whom the Left has as role models, don't we.
Mao, Chavez, Stalin, George Floyd, etc.
In fact, any of those I am sure would have been just fine with the Left wingers at the school.