District to Settle Bible Suit

This article was interesting to me because I just finished learning about the problems with keeping public schools secular, and how teaching of specific religious material is so touchy. I felt that the article was somewhat of a let down though, because it didn't escalate into a full blown controversial event. The two parties involved were able to resolve that curriculm that had been introduced, by the West Texas school district that violated the constitutional statute that there must be a seperation of church and state. It argued that the course curriculum, adopted in 2005 by the Ector County Independent School District, promoted Protestant Christianity and a specific reading of the Bible as a literal historical document. The settlement between the A.C.L.U. (American Civil Liberties Union) and the school district came to an agreement that a new curriculum that has been already developed will be used in place of the original course material. In the original complaint filed last May, the plaintiffs said the district established the elective Bible course through a process that was “improperly designed to promote religious instruction.”
The outcome of this article is pretty boring, and this is a rather short and boring post if this legal stuff doesn't really matter all to much to you. I find it interesting that there wasn't more of a fight to keep the original course in the state that it was instead the school district crumbled and gave in to the A.C.L.U.'s case and complaints.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/us/06bible.html?ref=education>