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Power of the principal
by redstick8

Halloween was coming, and I began to put up my traditional Halloween calendar that I'd made many years before. Our new principal came in and told me that I must take it down because Halloween was a celebration of satan( I discovered that she belonged to a church that didn't participate in Halloween.) I had used this homemade calendar since my first year of teaching in 1966! The calendar had been a project assigned to me by my supervisor.I contacted my union and was told that she had no right to disallow me to use it just because it was against her religion. With the new court ruling I wonder how long it may take before a principal will have "executive" power over this type of traditional free speech and deny Halloween!

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