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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Kids, un-zip your yaps!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Anybody remember Brian Bown?
He’s the former Snellville high school teacher who tried, unsuccessfully, to knock down Georgia’s 1994 Moment of Silence Law.
Bown’s name is popping up in Illinois newspaper stories about that state’s new moment of silence law. Bown is now a middle school teacher in Waukegan, Ill.
“It’s déjà vu,” Bown told the Chicago Tribune last week. “It’s the same things, the same arguments being said 13 years later.”
Bown sued the Gwinnett County school system a decade ago. In the federal suit, Bown, then a South Gwinnett High School teacher, claimed that a church had prodded public school students to take Bibles to class and say the Lord’s Prayer during their classroom’s moment of silence.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bown’s suit.
Bown says he may repeat that court battle in Illinois.
He also told the Tribune that he plans to protest the new law by walking out of class when teachers start telling their students to collectively stop talking for a minute every morning.
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