What do you say to people who sneeze? Most of you will probably say ‘bless you’ or God bless you.’ I don’t use either of those because of how they originated. Centuries ago, people believed that evil spirits could enter someone when they sneezed and that by saying ‘God bless you’ the spirits could be warded off. For that reason, I use the German expression ‘gesundheit’ which literally mean ‘good health.’ But who would have thought that saying ‘bless you’ to a classmate who sneezed could get you thrown out of class and given an in-school suspension? That’s what happened to Kendra Turner, a high school senior at Dyer County High School in Newbern, Tennessee.
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This is the most ridiculous form of religious freedom being under attack. This teacher should go to jail for not obey religious freedom in this country. This teacher should be allowed near our children, he is a wack job! Unbelievable ?
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