The school has no business taking children to see a Christmas play at a church, and given the comments made by both the school and the church, they still don’t seem to understand that what they tried to do was wrong.
Public schools cannot be in the business of promoting religion, but that is clearly what the school tried to do. Parents should be the ones to decide what religious education their children receive, and no parent or child should be put in the difficult position of choosing between their beliefs or fitting in with the crowd.
MORE: https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/good-grief-elementary-school-reluctantly-cancels-field-trip-to-see-merry
