Smells like holy spirit

Today we discuss Deborah Anderson, idiot principal of Sunnyside Elementary School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. One of Anderson's teachers, Kristie Griffiths, preached creationism and told her students to proselytize for Jesus. Her special gem was "God's word tells us about a kind of odor only Christians have." This was obviously a reference to a New Testament metaphor (Kristie, if you're reading this--look up "metaphor" in your dictionary) that a knowledge of Christ is like a perfume and that those who know Christ have the "scent" of Christ.
The parents of a fifth-grader sued the Cumberland County school system in federal court over Griffiths' teachings. School system officials have acknowledged the incident and have made assurances that such an incident will not occur again. Their excuse? That Anderson was a visiting teacher from Australia and didn't know the rules about religion in Ameican schools. This raises all kinds of questions: Is it legal to push religion to fifth graders in Australia? Was Griffiths informed of the church/state regulations and decided to ignore them? Or did no one bother to mention to her that it is illegal to peddle religion in the classroom?

But I said this was going to be about Deborah Anderson, and so it is. When the parents went to Anderson to complain about what had happened in their child's classroom, her response was: "What's the problem? Don't you and your family go to church?"

You may contact Principal Anderson here.