So we have to assume if a teacher or football coach or principal leads a class, football team or entire school in prayer that person would be similarly entitled to immunity? Interesting quote from TFA:
In the 1994 case, the Ninth Circuit ruled that religious neutrality required that the biology teacher’s positive views of religious ideas must be excluded from public school instruction. But in 2011, a different panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that the history teacher’s hostile views of religion and faith must be permitted to protect the “robust exchange of ideas in education.”
It looks like the Ninth Circuit is hostile to religion and faith. They clearly didn't get that from the First Amendment.
Turns out a lot of people only like two-sided policies when they coincide with their beliefs / desires / agendas. I don't think ID has any place in schools, but neither does a *teacher making fun of a student for anything.* Holy shit, kids are already so damn cruel to each other at that age. The teacher should be setting an example against that, not throwing out his own barbs. I'm not sure he needed to be sued (teacher shouldn't have to be on pins and needles all the time), but I am sure he was out of line.
Variables don't; constants aren't.