NO SILENCE FROM GEORGIA TEACHER

A high school teacher in Snellville, Georgia, was suspended and could be fired because he wouldn't observe a new state law requiring schools to hold a moment of silence each day. Instead, on South Gwinnett High School's opening day yesterday, American government teacher Brian Bown filled the minute with a discussion of the new law. Although the law's language says it isn't meant to impose school prayer, Bown and others contend that's the real intent. It's the kind of constitutional issue that could make its way to the Supreme Court.