Principal says students will no longer be punished for saying ‘God, bless you’
Image via Wikipedia VACAVILLE, California , October 4, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The principal of a California school about 45 miles from San Francisco has said that students will no longer be disciplined for saying “ God , bless you” in class. The principal’s statement follows news that a health teacher at William C. Wood High School took grade points away from his students for saying “God, bless you” when someone sneezed. “He realizes his mistake and that this wasn’t the best way to get the kids to behave,” Principal Cliff DeGraw told Sacramento ’s FOX40 . When Taylor McGinley sneezed in her health class at William C. Wood High School a few weeks ago, a student replied with “God, bless you.” Health teacher Steven Cuckovich, however, reportedly responded by disciplining the students, telling them that “the blessing doesn’t really make sense anymore.” “(Cuckovich) said, ‘Do you think that girl is evil, do you think the evil spirits are coming out of her?’ And the guy that sa