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Show Low board to replace spoken invocation with a moment of silence after objections
Summary
At its February meeting the Show Low Unified School District board announced it will no longer open meetings with a spoken invocation and will hold a moment of silence instead; the change drew criticism during public comment from a constituent who said the board had dismissed offers to represent non‑Christian faiths.
The Show Low Unified School District Governing Board announced at its February meeting that it will stop opening meetings with a spoken invocation and instead observe a moment of silence at the start of future meetings, the board president said.
“The issues that we've had regarding opposition to our holding an invocation at the beginning of our meetings … we feel like what would be best for the overall representation of the children in our district that we are going to now hold a moment of silence for our invocation on each of our school board meetings from here on out,” the board president said during the agenda item…
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