An Indiana public middle school has instructed a teacher to remove Christian wall decor from a classroom after a national secularist legal organization argued that the religious decorations violate the constitutional rights of non-Christian students.
An English teacher from Honey Creek Middle School in Terre Haute, Vigo County, was asked to remove a Latin cross and a Bible quote once hanging on the wall of a classroom, the Freedom From Religious Foundation announced earlier this month.
The school district’s instruction came after a “concerned parent” reported the teacher’s decor to the Wisconsin-based group that advocates for a strict separation of church and state.
In an Oct. 5 statement, the organization said it is “pleased to report that the Vigo County School Corp. has removed Christian displays from the classroom” after receiving a Sept. 8 demand letter from FFRF Legal Fellow Samantha Lawrence.