Amber became hysterical. She stated that the students could not bring the Bibles to school. In a separate incident, three students brought their books to school with a book cover displaying the Ten Commandments. These students were confronted by school officials who removed the book covers and threw them in the garbage, stating the Ten Commandments is hate speech which might offend other students. The school board has a policy prohibiting hate speech which the school was attempting to enforce.
Students also have the right to put a religious book cover on their own books.
These students weren't attempting to pass out the Bible or the Ten Commandment book covers, but were simply desiring to read the Bible and bring their own book covers for private use. Amazingly, the school trashed the Bibles and the Ten Commandments, calling them garbage. Schools are not totalitarian regimes and students are not robots. Schools are not religion-free zones. This lawsuit seeks to educate the educators.