Entirely Different

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In follow-up to a previous entry regarding the pagan Hanover Central High School girl in Cedar Lake, Indiana who was sent home Tuesday for wearing a pentagram in celebration of Beltane:

The pentagram in question was only approximately the size of a quarter and was worn on the teen's upper cheek below her eye. So what was the reason for sending the teen home for wearing such a faithful display of her religion? "They told her it was too distracting," (her father) Pencenke said. But, "they don't send kids home on Ash Wednesday," Pencenke pointed out.

As to why the school allows students to attend school with ash on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday, (School Superintendent Michael) Livovich (Jr.) claimed that the situation was entirely different.

Read full article Religious Discrimination In Schools? by Miss Faith.

UPDATE: The father discusses here why his daughter was wearing a pentagram on her face instead of *just wearing* a pentagram necklace:

I do need to explain my daughters action on painting the pentagram on her face. She has had necklaces taken from her by facaulty, she has had other students rip them right off her neck. She said if its painted on my skin they can not take it away from me. Logical I think.

Last year she was being abused by a male student who was snapping her with industral rubber bands, this student also jumped on her back and in frustration she yelled at him to get the F off of her, she was suspended while the other student that had caused harm to her was not, we submited a video tape of the welts and bruises cause by the other student and still no action was taken. Even though pagans are a peaceful and quiet people, we do have our limits on how much we are gonna take.

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