An Arkansas public school district recently set off a flood of controversy on social media regarding the long debate of separation of church and state. (Photo KATV) PRESCOTT, Ark. (KATV) — An Arkansas public school district recently set off a flood of controversy on social media regarding the long debate of separation of church and state. In a now-deleted Facebook post from May 4, the Prescott School District shared photos of fifth and sixth grade students reading the Bible and opinions are coming in from around the country. Another post from the same school district highlighted preschool students praying over their food with teachers in the cafeteria. Attorney Sammi Lawrence with Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation said they received several complaints from concerned Arkansans about what they were seeing online. “That the district has distributed Bibles to students in elementary school classes and what was encouraging pre-kindergarten students to pray and that started making the rounds online it seemed," said Lawrence. Lawrence said it is against the Constitution for anyone working for a public school district to distribute religious content such as the Bible or encourage one religion over another. “People just really want to be able to send […]
