Phillip Vaccaro considers Jesus his best friend.
So to him, Jesus seemed perfect for a writing assignment the 7th-grader got this spring in his language-arts class in Brookfield, Ohio: write a friendly letter to someone who dramatically changed his life.
But his teacher didn’t like his choice of correspondent.
“She told him he could not write that letter because Jesus wasn’t a real person — that he didn’t exist,” Phillip’s mother, Peggy Koehler, said.
“How dare they throw their atheistic values upon my child?”
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