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Student trip to Glendive creationist museum canceled over legal concerns

Glendive third-graders will no longer visit their town’s creationist museum amid concerns that the annual school trip to learn about dinosaurs violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

School district administrators had authorized this year’s field trip to the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum but reversed course last week after receiving a letter from a Washington, D.C., advocacy group calling the school-sponsored event illegal. Their decision dashed the hopes of many of the children, some parents said.

By Derek Brouwer

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/student-trip-to-glendive-creationist-museum-canceled-over-legal-concerns/article_a78b2df1-c9de-5445-bfd1-2a445448f6bf.html#ixzz3bLSYIFxy

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The Gianforte Family Foundation made a donation in 2009 to the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, which presents a faith-based view that the world was created only a few thousand years ago and that humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

http://www.matr.net/article-59916.html

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