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A student in Craryville, New York, known as A.M., was made the person to pass a message at a “Moving up Ceremony” at her school that occurred every year. She asked her English teacher to check her paper. The last line of the speech was: “As we say our goodbyes and leave middle school behind, I say to you, may the LORD bless you and keep you; make His face shine upon you .....Etc.”
Both the English teacher and the school counselor suggested to her to talk to the principal. After reading the paper, the principal told A.M. to leave out the last sentence of the exposition, saying that it sounded too religious. The mother of the student asked if Superintendent Sposato could also review the paper, and once he read it, Sposato agreed with Principal
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