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Article: Supreme Court skips Columbine tile case. (In the Capital).
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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The Supreme Court in January declined to review a U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that barred religious themes from a school project at Columbine High School.
After two students entered their Colorado high school in spring 1999 and shot and killed numerous students and faculty, a couple of teachers created a project to help the shocked student body become reintroduced to the building. The project asked students to create "abstract artwork" on tiles that would be installed throughout the halls of the school.
The Columbine administration approved of the undertaking, but added that "to assure that the interior of the building would remain a ...