Connecticut Teacher In Legal Battle After Resisting Order to Remove Crucifix

Teacher Crucifix Battle: Connecticut Educator Fights for Faith

A dispute over a teacher’s crucifix in New Britain, Connecticut has left Catholic educator Marisol Arroyo-Castro sidelined from the classroom she loves. Suspended last December after refusing to remove a crucifix from beside her desk, Arroyo-Castro says she now fears termination. “I dream about my teaching experience almost every day,” she told Fox News. “I didn’t realize how much I really love teaching now that I cannot go back, and the reason …

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What right does anyone have to insist on the removal of an object because one disagrees or is offended by it? In the news: A teacher in Connecticut was removed from the classroom for refusing to take down a crucifix hanging by her desk that had be...

Teacher suspended over crucifix in classroom continues fight for job · American Wire News

A Connecticut teacher fears she’ll lose the job she loves over a cross she had refused to remove from the classroom. Arroyo-Castro’s legal representatives say the teacher, a devout Catholic, was suspended and allegedly “threatened with termination” last December after refusing to remove a crucifix that has sat beside her desk for 10 years, Fox News reported. “I dream about my teaching experience almost every day,” Marisol Arroyo-Castro told Fox …

Connecticut Teacher In Legal Battle After Resisting Order to Remove Crucifix

Marisol Arroyo-Castro, who taught at DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School in New Britain, Conn., has gone to federal court to contest a directive by her bosses to remove a crucifix from her classroom. This photo shows the original position of the crucifix. (Photo: Courtesy of First Liberty Institute) PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A junior high school teacher and the Connecticut school where she worked are locked in a legal battle over her refusal to remove …

Connecticut teacher fears classroom cross dispute could cost her job

First Liberty Institute represents suspended Connecticut teacher Marisol Arroyo-Castro in legal battle over a crucifix put on display in her classroom.

Teacher suspended over crucifix in classroom continues fight for job