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It's so much easier to support freedom of religion when you don't recognize religious practices other than your own. And remember: "You need Jesus in your life!"

Wake school district policy prohibits students from wearing head coverings of any kind. But the policy says schools should make "reasonable accommodations on the basis of students' religious beliefs or medical conditions."

So when a 16-year-old student wears a yarmulke to class,

Assistant Principal Scott Brouthers questioned him about the yarmulke and told him "he needed Jesus in his life." [...] Not wanting to stand out, Brad said he chose to wear a baseball cap, with his name emblazoned on it, over the yarmulke. Even though Brad said he explained to Brouthers that he was wearing the cap for religious reasons, he said the assistant principal would daily tell him to take off the cap. At least twice more, Brad said, Brouthers spoke to him about needing Jesus.

Toss in that some students told the kid he was going to hell for being Jewish, and gee, he doesn't want to wear the yarmulke visibly. The school's reaction? Suspension.

[His father Paul] Seelig, who has a master's degree in Hebrew education, said administrators wouldn't believe him when he said that Jewish law doesn't specify the kind of head covering.
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Superintendent Bill McNeal contacted Judah Segal, executive director of the Raleigh-Cary Jewish Federation, who backed the Seeligs' position on head coverings. At a meeting Thursday among Seelig, Segal and school officials, they worked out the compromise.

The compromise? Spend $100 on nicer hats for the teen to wear to school.

God forbid those asswipes end up with a Sikh student....