Speaking of Evanston, five of seven school board members voted to publicly ignore the ridiculous new "moment of prayer" law the Illinois legislature passed. The idiots who passed the law forgot to add penalties for non-compliance. Doh!
Evanston-Skokie School District 65 will ignore new legislation mandating a moment of silence in Illinois public schools after trying unsuccessfully to seek a waiver that would free the district from following the law, board members said.
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It is unclear what steps, if any, the state might take to force the district to comply with the law. The legislation does not provide penalties for non-compliance nor offer guidelines on how to deal with schools -- or in this case school boards -- that choose to ignore it
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"It sets up an unnecessary intrusion into the classroom," said board member Mary Rita Luecke.
Luecke said she suspects some supporters of the new law really want a moment of prayer but are settling for a moment of silence.
"This is really being encouraged by people who are trying to bring prayer into school," she said.
[From School board to ignore state moment-of-silence law]
Meanwhile, the same idiots in the Illinois legislature cannot seem to find a way to agree on how to fund the regional transit system, so the CTA (and Metra, etc.) have to operate without a proper budget.
