Schools Let Biblical Rules Be Posted

MCKEE, Ky. — With essentially no community opposition, volunteers placed the Ten Commandments in every classroom in a rural eastern Kentucky school district before classes began Wednesday.

The Jackson County School Board and superintendent made the decision as part of “an effort to start having good morals in school,” said Betty Bond, principal of Jackson County High School.

Timothy Crawford, the school district’s attorney, said he believes the plaques in the district’s five schools are allowed by law because they were paid for and posted by local volunteers.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Kentucky case that posting the Ten Commandments violates the Constitution’s ban on government-established religion.