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  • 2014-04-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a Student's Assignment Rejected Because She Wrote About Jesus? (en)
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  • In mid-March 2014, television station WECT reported that a second-grade student at Cerro Gordo Elementary School in Columbus County, North Carolina, had her rough draft of a school paper on the topic of My hero is Jesus rejected by her teacher due to its subject matter: Shortly after this incident was reported in the news, a Facebook post exhorted readers to share a purported image (reproduced above) of a school essay on the subject of Give an example of someone who has impacted your life, with one student's answer of Jesus Christ receiving a failing grade and a comment from the instructor to Remove Jesus please!: This image was linked in accompanying text to the recent controversy at Cerro Gordo Elementary School. However, that image clearly was not something genuinely connected to that issue, as the student at Cerro Gordo Elementary was an eight-year-old named Ryleigh, while the Facebook image referenced a student with a different name, displayed handwriting indicative of a much older student, and did not match a news image of Ryleigh's proposed essay: Cerro Gordo Elementary subsequently issued a detailed statement from the school's principal asserting that, contrary to news reports, the student in question had never been barred from choosing Jesus as the subject of a paper about her hero, and that the circulated Facebook image was unconnected to that case: (en)
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