Larkin students benefit from courageous decision

Kudos to the Principal Jon Tuin at Larkin High School, Elgin U-46, for allowing a student group to hold an informational session on atheism in the school cafeteria.

School officials supported him, in spite of criticism from a self-professed devout Christian. Tuin affirmed his intention to allow divergent religious groups to conduct similar informational activities as long as they were respectful and reasonable.

An important goal of education is to expose young people to varying points of view. The students in Larkin’s cafeteria on the day in question will remember what they learned about our nation’s wealth of ideas and Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of speech and freedom of (from) religion much longer than they remember the day’s math assignment.

Karen Wagner

Rolling Meadows