Students forced to attend preaching during school hours
In 2022, a school district in West Virginia adopted a policy that effectively required yearly training on religious freedom as part of a lawsuit settlement, which was in response to many students being forced to attend an evangelical preacher's revival assembly during the school day. All of this happened in Cabell County, West Virginia, whose board of education claimed that it was “not the province of a public school to either inhibit, or advance, religious beliefs or practices.” There were in fact four separate families in this town of Huntington, West Virginia that sued the district in 2022, and accused the school system of having a history of disregarding the religious freedom of its students and inculcating Christian religious practices among their students. In this particular lawsuit, there were two Huntington High School teachers who had escorted their entire homeroom classes to a large assembly hosted by evangelical preacher named Nik Walker, who had consistently been lead...