School Reverses Suspensions for 12 Praying Students

A public school district retracted suspensions given to a dozen students who had been praying in a common area at their school cafeteria earlier this year.

The Evergreen School District – which Heritage High School in Vancouver, Wash., is part of – had agreed to remove the offenses from the students’ school records so that they will not negatively affect their records in the future.

The group of students were able to pray again in public on May 1, which is observed by many as May Day.

"Students have the constitutional right to gather together to pray before school, just as they can gather to discuss sports, music or movies,” explained Mathew D. Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the firm that represented the students, in a statement. “In these days of discord and violence, schools should know better than to ban students from praying.”

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