Religion in Schools... Is it free?

Today I want to get into something a little deeper than yesterday's post, which was just about myself. I learned something in school today that I do not feel is right, and I would like to talk about it and see what anyone who takes the time to read this thinks.

So, I was sitting in government class today as we were going over a test that we took yesterday. Our teacher has been out for the past two days, and the sub gave us a 9th grade civics test that we were to take to see how much we could remember from three years ago. As we were going over the answers, we came upon a question that I was sure I knew the answer of. It was in the section of the test where a scenario was given and we had to choose from the list which amendment this scenario was violating, or choose "no violation". This particular scenario was as follows:
A Muslim woman is told that she must take off her head-wear in school. What amendment was the school violating?
We know as Americans that the first amendment gives us the right to freedom of religion, so that was the answer I chose. Of course, this was the right answer. However after the sub said the correct answer, a woman who's always in our classroom to observe (she's in there to help a few "special" kids in my class) raised her hand. "Mr. Segretti, I don't think that is correct. I know for a fact that here at Franklin Regional, you're not allowed to wear a cross around your neck."

At first, I was confused. For the first three years of high school, I have worn the same cross around my neck every day (I don't wear it anymore because my boyfriend gave me a beautiful heart necklace for my birthday this past year. But that's besides the point.) and I never once was told to take it off. Maybe they just didn't see it, I'm not sure. But the lady began talking about how we're trying not to make one religion seem better than the other, so they passed a rule in the dress code that they were forbidden. They just don't "enforce it as much as they should."

Honestly, I am appalled by this new information. How can they teach in a Franklin Regional civics course that you cannot tell a Muslim woman to take off her head-wear, yet they can tell us we can't wear a cross? What kind of hipocracy is this? Nonetheless, every day we are expected (not required, however) to stand for the pledge. One nation. Under God. I swear, Franklin Regional, you make no sense sometimes.

Alright, well that was my little rant of the day. Figures, on my second blog I'd be posting about something negative. I can assure you, most of my posts won't be like that. I'm generally a happy, positive person, and I'm hoping that my posts over the next few months will really reflect that. I'm the type of person that likes to get into really deep stuff, a lot of it will more than likely be personal or controversial. I hope you all will find this blog interesting, and feel free to give any feedback or give your opinion on anything that I say. =) Have a great day!

- Sara