In Lexington, students say school administrators called police on them.
It had nothing to do with weapons, drugs or violent behavior though. The students say they were simply praying.
A group of 8th-graders at Lexington's East Jessamine Middle School gathered at lunch to pray for a fellow student whose mother was killed in a moving van accident.
The students say they chose lunch because they are allowed to pray during non-instructional time. They say school officials told them to stop praying and sit down.
When the students refused, they say administrators called police and threatened to arrest them.
"Everybody started standing and praying, and we weren't going to sit down because it's our right to stand up and believe," sais student William Barnes.
"They were like forcing to call the cops on us for defiance and stuff like that, and all we wanted to do was pray for a kid who lost his mom," said student James Rinkin.
Jessamine County School's superintendent says administrators had no problem with the kids praying. They say their concern was that the students would be late for class. They say they never threatened to arrest the group.
Students Told To Stop Praying At KY School
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