Vandalism Follows Teachers' Request To End School Board Prayer

Two teachers who requested the Crawford County, Georgia Board of Education to stop opening board meetings and new teacher orientations with prayer found that someone disagreed strongly with their proposal. The Macon (GA) Telegraph reported today the teachers found the tires on their cars slashed. The vandalism took place in the school board parking lot on the night of the October board meeting-- a meeting that, as usual, opened with a prayer. School officials say that prayer will continue, but they will comply with guidelines that call for prayers to be denominationally neutral. Presumably that means that the routine practice of mentioning Jesus by name in opening prayers will be changed.