A federal judge says a jury will decide if a Georgia school system’s decision to halt a yoga program — and transfer the elementary school administrator who started it — was done to promote Christianity.
U.S. Judge William Ray refused the Cobb County School District’s request for summary judgment and said Friday that the federal lawsuit filed by a former assistant principal will go to trial. Bonnie Cole, the former assistant principal at Bullard Elementary School, filed a lawsuit following her transfer from the school after parental complaints about yoga at the school.
During the 2014-2015 school year, Cole said she implemented breathing and stretching exercises based on yoga and meditation in classrooms as a way of reducing stress and encouraging relaxation. Cole said in the lawsuit that the practices were not religious, but they prompted complaints from some Christian parents.
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