Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms

Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools When history teacher Chris Dier sued Louisiana two years ago for mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms, he said it was not about taking a stand against Christianity . “It’s a defense of many different types of values, including civil liberties and religious freedoms,” Dier said, who teaches at a New Orleans high school.

“I spent over 16 years teaching students that the constitution protects everyone of every faith – students of no faith too.”

Read the original report at The Guardian.