ACLU, SLU, Tangi Parish reach settlement

From the Louisiana ACLU website:

­The ACLU of Louisiana announces a favorable settlement in the case of student teacher Cynthia Thompson versus Southeastern Louisiana University and the Tangipahoa Parish School Board. SLU will remove the failing grade on the student teaching course from her transcript and allow her the opportunity to enroll in the future to complete the requirements for graduation. Furthermore, an investigation of teacher Pamela Sullivan by the school board verified the allegations of officially sponsored prayer in the classroom and Bible study before class, which led to the cessation of such practices.[...]Thompson, who had made the President’s List and the Dean’s List and accumulated all of the hours to graduate, was never determined to be a marginal student. Yet two weeks before completion of the student teaching assignment, she was pulled out of the classroom, after teaching all day, and given an untenable ultimatum to withdraw or take an “F.”

Deliberately failing an honors student because of her refusal to preach in the public schools amounts to religious fascism, in my opinion.

Too bad they settled. They should have been sued into penury.