Pennsylvania —

The Corry Area School District in Pennsylvania agreed to make sure that a religious club taking place at a district school was completely student run and would not allow the participation of outside adults, thanks to FFRF’s vigilance.

A district community member informed FFRF that outside adults were allowed to enter Corry schools to lead meetings of Impact Campus Fellowship, a Christian club. FFRF learned that the club was meeting on Thursdays during the lunch period, and no other groups were meeting in this manner.

“Schools cannot constitutionally allow religious organizations to treat schools as a recruiting ground for their religious mission,” FFRF Staff Attorney Madeline Ziegler wrote. “The district’s practice of allowing outside religious representatives unique access to its students demonstrates unconstitutional favoritism not only for religion over non-religion, but in this case Christianity over all other faiths.”

After FFRF’s letter, the district did take action, conducting an investigation of the situation. Jennifer E. Gornall of KnoxLaw confirmed that the club was student initiated, and it did not appear that an outside adult was regularly attending meetings. Regardless, the district did take steps to ensure that clubs would be monitored to ensure constitutional compliance. “Moving forward, the district will ensure that all activities of the club (and any other non-school-sponsored clubs) are led by the student members of the group only and that the meetings and activities will not be directed, conducted, controlled or even regularly attended by individuals from outside the district,” Gornall wrote.

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