Bastrop High School

The staff is incapable of upholding the constitution of the United States of America. They ostracize their students and allow fellow peers to do the same. Teachers demean children and don't stick up for them when they are being bullied, even the counselors. Do not move to this school, it is a pathetic representation of education.

2011 graduating senior Damon Fowler objected to prayer at the Bastrop High School graduation exercises, claiming a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The ACLU of Louisiana asked the school not to include a prayer in the ceremony but, in a spectacularly pigheaded display of poor judgment, the school allowed a student to take the floor and she purposely included an expressly Christian prayer while another thumper led people in the Lord's Prayer. The school says that this second student was told not to include a prayer, but no one did a thing to stop her. Fowler, of course, was ostracized and harassed by other students. I guess those students just couldn't turn the other cheek. Don't subject your kids to this mess.

Move, just move to a different school district - you do not want your children "educated" here.

Seriously, Why not slap a NUN in the door and be done with it? You want to be religious and all, brother please!

I'm obviously not going to rate a school that both encouraged and then failed to stop (knowing full well that it was planned) to stop unconstitutional prayer during graduation. This kind of negligence costs tax payers millions of dollars every year! Its a waste of time and resources and is completely inappropriate. Shame on this school's administers for failing our kids and failing to honor our countrie's foundational laws.
--Submitted by a teacher

I observed the bullying of Damon Fowler. Your school is a disgrace. Having broken the law, you should be sued.

I cannot give a good rating to a school that threatens the well being of its students by not handling controversial matters with dignity and discretion.

Not only did one of the faculty provide inappropriate and insulting comments about a student in her care to a news channel, but this school also willfully violated the law with little care and/or understanding of the US Constitution and Supreme Court judgements. If the faculty and administration are unable to grasp the basics of the American legal system, they cannot be entrusted to teach future generations of Americans.

Google Damon Fowler. Google Damon Fowler. Google Damon Fowler. Google Damon Fowler. Google Damon Fowler. Google Damon Fowler.

Not a very good Government curriculum... they don't seem to understand the US Constitution at all