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Related: About this forumMO District Will Pay Over $150K for Illegal Field Trip to Christian Ministry
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MO District Will Pay Over $150K for Illegal Field Trip to Christian Ministry
July 4, 2017 by Hemant Mehta
In 2015, to celebrate their hard work preparing for and taking the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests, the eighth-graders at North Middle School in Joplin were taken to a sports complex with a climbing wall and video games.
Good times!
Heres the form the parents had to sign:
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You can see that parents were told the kids were going to Victory Sports Complex but thats a little misleading. Because thats not the places name. Its actually called Victory Ministry & Sports Complex. Which wait for it is a ministry.
That wasnt necessarily a deal breaker. As long as the staffers stuck to watching the children as they played, and there was no attempt to proselytize, there wouldnt be a problem. Its really no different from the way churches sometimes host public school graduation ceremonies when theyre the largest venue in town theres usually no legal consequence as long as everything is kept secular.
But when you looked at the liability form provided by the ministry (and which parents also had to sign), it became clear that the employees there had every intention of converting these children while their parents werent around. This is item #6 on the list:
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Quote:We (I) understand that the officers, officials, agents, other participants and employees of Victory Ministry and Sports Complex may be inviting me or (my) our students to Bible studies and local churches of the Christian faith. While at any Victory Ministry and Sports Complex location or event (my) our student(s) has permission to participate in worship services, Bible studies or any other activities that may pertain to the Christian faith.
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Way to sneak that into the middle of the form, right? Also note #10, which essentially says the ministry can take and use pictures of students to promote their Christian agenda.
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MO District Will Pay Over $150K for Illegal Field Trip to Christian Ministry (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Jul 2017
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MyOwnPeace
(17,275 posts)1. Betsy DeVos and company
would be so proud!
rurallib
(63,201 posts)2. it's ok because any way you can save their souls is good with god
NOT!
Duppers
(28,246 posts)3. I hope one of these parents has the good sense
To call the ACLU.