Christian revival assembly where students were asked to give their lives over to Jesus prompts student walkout at West Virginia public high school
Huntington High School senior Max Nibert holds signs he planned to use during a walkout students are staging at Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. — Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly.
"I have never been prouder of a group of my peers than I am right now," Nibert said, speaking into a megaphone during the protest."When ordinary citizens find their circumstances to be unfair, they change them. And that's exactly what we're doing today.
"It is inappropriate and unconstitutional for the District to offer religious leaders unique access to preach and proselytize students during school hours on school property," Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the separation of church and state, wrote in a letter to the school district. The district cannot"allow its schools to be used as recruiting grounds for churches," the letter reads.
"It's a completely unfair and unacceptable situation to put a teenager in," she said."I'm not knocking their faith, but there's a time and place for everything - and in public schools, during the school day, is not the time and place.""They can't just play this game of, you know, 'We're going to choose this time as wiggle room, this gray area where we believe we can insert a church service,'" he said.
Walker, originally from the small town of Mullens, West Virginia, has been traveling the state since he was 17 hosting church meetings at schools. He said he came to Huntington on Jan. 23 with plans to leave three days later but saw a need he felt compelled to address.
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