Charles Haynes columns
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Teachers face tough questions about religion
By Charles Haynes 'What can I say to students about my faith?'
10.11.98
Family-life courses need religious touch
By Charles Haynes Religions have much to say about marriage and sexuality. But not a word of it can be found in the health textbooks used in public high schools.
10.04.98
Neutrality depriving schools of religion as learning topic
By Charles Haynes The public-school curriculum virtually ignores religion. Except for brief treatments of the topic in history and sometimes literature, most subjects are taught without any attention to religious ideas or ways of seeing the world.
09.27.98
Schools should be sensitive to religions of minorities
By Charles Haynes Forget the home run race. Litigation has now surpassed baseball as America's favorite national pastime.
09.20.98
Religion back in classroom after 35 years
By Charles Haynes In Abington, Pa., the controversy over religion in the schools has finally come full circle.
09.13.98
Is a 60-second, rote prayer at ball games worth a fight?
By Charles Haynes Football season has arrived, and in small towns across America that means Friday nights in the bleachers, cheering the school to victory. A short prayer over the loudspeaker, a valiant attempt to sing "The Star Spangled Banner," and the game begins. God, country, and football.
09.06.98
American schools, unlike many, teach harmony, not hate
By Charles Haynes Few Americans give this extraordinary achievement a second thought. What people in places like Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and India are literally dying to achieve, we take for granted.
08.31.98
Examining a president's words
By Charles Haynes Thomas Jefferson's famous letter about 'wall of separation between church and state' stirs another debate about the meaning of the First Amendment.
08.23.98
Loss of school tradition needn't tear apart county
By Charles Haynes Northern Alabama can be pretty hot in the middle of August — and I don't just mean the weather. Folks in DeKalb County are still steamed about a federal court injunction aimed at ending school-sponsored religious practices.
08.16.98
How schools can help meet needs of Muslim students
By Charles Haynes When school doors open later this month, America's exploding religious diversity will fill the classrooms.
08.09.98
Schools can avert Exodus 2000
By Charles Haynes Most public-school teachers react with shock and anger when they first hear about Exodus 2000. That's the movement calling for all Christians to leave public schools by the year 2000.
08.02.98
'A Vision of Religious Liberty in Schools'
By Charles Haynes Text of testimony by Charles C. Haynes before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, given May 20, 1998.
05.20.98
Public schools confront the 'December dilemma'
By Charles Haynes Ringing fills the air here at the First Amendment Center, but the tune is not "Jingle Bells." Angry parents and confused principals are on the other end of the phone line, calling about Christmas in the schools.
11.30.97
Court protects students wearing religious symbols
By Charles Haynes A pop quiz: What's the difference between rosary beads and gang symbols? A yarmulke and a baseball cap?
11.23.97
Schools that ignore society's religious roots are off base
By Charles Haynes At Thanksgiving 12 years ago, an editorial cartoon depicted a little boy giving a class presentation in a public school. The caption read: "The Pilgrims came here seeking freedom of you-know-what. When they landed, they gave thanks to you-know-who. Because of them, we can worship each Sunday you-know-where."
11.16.97
Schools must convey message that parents are always welcome
By Charles Haynes With tears in her voice, the mother of two small children called to complain that she was being ignored by her school district. She had just transferred her kids from a religious school, and she was anxious to know what they would be taught in public school.
11.10.97
Network provides means to bridge abortion chasm
By Charles Haynes If there's one issue that most defies 'finding common ground,' it's abortion. Not since the fight over the abolition of slavery have Americans been so deeply divided and the public debate so hostile and angry.
11.02.97
By definition, tolerance is not always a virtue
By Charles Haynes Strange as it may seem, 'tolerance' is now a fighting word in some school districts.
10.18.97
Unhappy parents protest Halloween activity in school
By Charles Haynes Like a ghoul that rises from its grave in one of those awful horror movies, the Halloween controversy just won't go away.
10.12.97
Church party legal, but must be dealt with sensitively
By Charles Haynes Oklahoma teacher says principal told him there could be no Christmas party for his second-graders at local church.
10.05.97
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