From what I remember, the first week of school usually included some sort of "tell us about yourself" assignment. I gather that's still fairly common because last week my best friend had her speech students give an introduction of another student as their first activity. Again, as I recall, there wasn't much to it -- you didn't get a worse grade if you said you liked chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla, the point was just to share a bit about yourself.

Not so in a Pennsylvania kindergarten class. When a boy followed one of the teacher's suggestions and had his mother come in to read a story from his favorite book, officials stepped in. The book? You guessed it: the Bible. The teacher "suggested" the boy's mother read a book about Halloween and witches instead because merely reading a story from the Bible in response to a "getting to know you" assignment about what was important to the student was deemed proselytizing.

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised when many states outlaw a teacher reading their personal Bible on their personal lunchbreak because that might offend someone.