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To: Cisco who wrote (19)	9/19/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: EyeDrMike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 424

perhaps TOS should come into play with this user name "Getting Shot at School" <<As part of the registration process, you will select a password and user name. Choose wisely. We may refuse to grant you a user name that impersonates someone else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other proprietary right law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause confusion, as determined by us in our sole discretion.>> In light of the rash of schools shootings, and the suffering and pain of many American families, i personally find the user name particularly offensive.

To: Cisco who wrote (19)	9/19/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 424

thanks for your response. i am opposed to student-led prayer at public school graduations and football games. here is another recent story. regards School district sued for closing on Jewish High Holy Days September 9, 1999 Web posted at: 11:39 AM EDT (1539 GMT) CINCINNATI (AP) -- A suburban school district's practice of closing for the Jewish High Holy Days is being challenged in federal court as a violation of the constitutional separation of religion and state. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Sycamore School District on Aug. 25, the first day of school in the district that serves the towns of Montgomery and Blue Ash. "The true motivation for the board's calendar decision to close on the Jewish high holidays, but not the holy days of other faiths, was the defendants' desire to favor Judaism over other religious faiths," the lawsuit says. Public schools may close on religious holidays only if they have a religiously neutral reason for doing so, said Gino Scarselli, associate legal director for the ACLU of Ohio. But School Superintendent Bruce Armstrong said high absenteeism, rather than religion, is the reason for closing schools on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. He said about 12 percent of the students were absent during those holidays, compared with only 2 percent on Muslim holy days. "If any faith, any reason, causes us high absenteeism on any day, I would recommend closing on that day," Armstrong said today. He said that when he became superintendent in 1994, the district had a policy of not giving tests or introducing new material on the Jewish High Holy Days. "Quite frankly what we were doing was not working. It was not in the kids' best educational interests," he said. The ACLU lawsuit asks that the district be prohibited from taking future actions that favor one religious denomination over any other. It is not seeking to keep schools open on the Jewish holidays this year. Schools would be closed this year for Rosh Hashana regardless of the policy because it begins at sundown Friday and ends Sunday night. Yom Kippur is Sept. 20, a Monday. Copyright 1999 The Associated Press.