This sounds a lot like the "Don't test for an error condition that you can't handle appropriately" principle in coding.
It's also part of the usual separation-of-school-and-state discussion :-)
At 10:04 AM 03/22/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-religbriefs22.6mar22,1,473799.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia
School Suspension Over Religious Slogans Voided SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A high school cannot suspend students for handing out candy canes with religious messages, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Frank Freedman said this week that a policy at Westfield High School prohibiting the distribution of printed material on school grounds without permission violated students' 1st Amendment rights. Members of the school's Bible club had asked the principal just before Christmas if they could hand out candy with religious messages. The principal said no, but they handed them out anyway.
