Schools hire faculty to lecture students about how racist their heritage and American institutions are. They hire people to indoctrinate students who are going into heavy debt to receive the education they need to get a well-paying job. But what certain schools don’t want is to hire Christian teachers.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) reported their client, Moody Bible Institute, is suing the Chicago Board of Education for refusing to allow the school’s students to participate in student teacher training because of their religious beliefs. From AFL (emphasis added):
Moody Bible Institute’s Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education degree program prepares future elementary school teachers. Prospective teachers are required to spend a minimum amount of time in classroom observation, practicum, and student teaching hours. Chicago Public School officials, however, refuse to allow Moody students to participate in its student teaching program unless Moody abandons its religiously based hiring practices and hire employees who disagree with Moody’s core mission and biblical values.
That sounds like discrimination.
AFL said that the Illinois State Board of Education approved Moody Bible Institute’s Elementary Education degree program. The board didn’t seem to have a problem with the school’s Christian beliefs. So why is the Chicago school system barring Christian students from learning how to be teachers?
“Chicago desperately needs more teachers to fill hundreds of vacancies, but public school administrators are putting personal agendas ahead of the needs of families,” said Jeremiah Galus, ADF attorney. “Moody holds its faculty and students to high standards of excellence and is more than qualified to participate in Chicago’s student-teaching program. By excluding Moody for its religious beliefs, Chicago Public Schools is illegally injecting itself into a religious non-profit’s hiring practices, which the Constitution and state laws expressly forbid.”
