Arkansas Superintendent Pondering Complaint Over Gideons In Classrooms

Today's Arkansas Times reports that the Superintendent of the Benton, Arkansas schools is "trying to figure out what to do" about a parent's complaint over religious activity at Ringgold Elementary School. For at least six years, school principal Ann Kerr has gone into 5th grade classrooms with members of Gideons International. The Gideons speak about their evangelical work and leave copies of the New Testament (plus Psalms and Proverbs) behind that students can pick up. The principal apparently believed that the practice was legal so long as Bibles were not actually handed to students.