Beliefs clash among students, parents and teachers as the Ten Commandments go up in Texas classrooms

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By JAMIE STENGLE

DALLAS (AP) — When it became clear to high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn’t ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job she loved.

“I just was not going to be a part of forcing or imposing religious doctrine onto my students,” she said.

Texas is undertaking the nation’s largest attempt to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools, and in the rush to navigate the Republican-led mandate that took effect in September, the rollout has forced some districts to confront hard choices.

Federal courts have ordered more than two dozen of the state’s nearly 1,200 school districts to not hang the posters