The club with the motto Educatin' with Satan has to be treated like any other student group, according to the settlement.

The Lehigh Valley school district that tried to ban an after-school Satan Club from meeting on its property earlier this year has agreed to pay $200,000 to cover attorney fees. The school will also give the club the same access to school facilities as “comparable groups.”

In the settlement finalized Thursday between the Saucon Valley School District and The Satanic Temple, the district also agreed to not retaliate or discriminate against club members, families or volunteers “on the basis of their viewpoint” or for the “exercise of their First Amendment rights.”

  • 0110010001100010@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    1 year ago

    This article missed the best bit:

    The district has agreed to pay $200,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to TST’s attorneys.” Additionally, the Saucon Valley School District agreed to pay the ceremonial sum of $1 to The Satanic Temple in nominal damages.

    Classy AF, they didn’t even press for damages. From their blog and email newsletter.

    https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/news/saucon-valley-district-settles-over-after-school-satan-club-ban-amid-school-board-election-losses-tied-to-financially-wasteful-ego-driven-legal-melodramas

    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      Nice. Also: "four school board incumbents were voted out in favor of challengers who ran a campaign primarily focused on the “unnecessary and financially wasteful, ego-driven legal melodramas”

      It seems like they found their way to the “and find out” half of the equation.

      It astonishes me how many grown adults think that picking an unnecessary feud with a bunch of teenagers is somehow going to go well for them.

      If they want these kids to find their view of enlightenment, they could go deal with the glaring issues in their view of enlightenment.

      In there meantime, as the Pink Floyd says "leave those kids alone*.

      • Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The Lehigh Valley School district is rough around the edges. My cousin faced retaliation from the top because they outpaced the system there.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      1 year ago

      Fuck that shit. The only reason they did this was to spare the school district.

      The right people didn’t even get punished here.