Students Encouraged To Participate In “Bring Your Bible To School Day”

An event known as “Bring Your Bible to School Day” is working to change all that by encouraging kids across the nation to take pride in their faith, KKCO reports.

The pamphlet even quotes scripture, reading “Let your light shine, – Matthew 5:16”.

Spokesperson Dan Thigpen says officials got a request from a parent to post the flier on Peach Jar.

“When we launched “Bring Your Bible to School Day” last year as a way to empower and encourage public school students from kindergarten to college to express their faith freely, we had no idea God was going to do so much with the event in such a little time”, said Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, noting that 8,000 students participated in the event last year.

Thigpen said that the district is walking a fine line between freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

District leaders sent out the flier after their attorneys told them that not promoting the event could potentially be seen as discriminatory against Christians.

One such region is Folsom, California, where the local school district reportedly emailed a flyer for the event, which a few parents viewed as an endorsement.

“Where do you stop?” pastor Chan Kim said.

But a KCRA 3 review of the administrative regulations on advertising and promotion found the policy reads: “Materials shall not be distributed to students or advertised in school-sponsored publications if they: Discriminate against, attack or denigrate any group on account of gender, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or any other unlawful consideration; or promote one group over another.” .

“We all should be able to practice what we want, but not in our public schools”, said Jessica Braverman Birch of the Jewish Community Relations Council.

Bring Your Bible To School is an effort sponsored by Focus on Family, an evangelical Protestant organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Whatever the case, too many students feel a quiet pressure to hide their faith – an integral part of who they are – while they’re in school”.