A Tennessee grade school is under fire today after forbidding a 10 year-old girl to pick God as her idol for a writing assignment.

WREG is reporting that little Erin Shead, a student at Lucy Elementary in Memphis, was given an assignment to write about someone she idolized. Being a Christian, she chose God.

“I look up to God,” she wrote. “I love him and Jesus, and Jesus is His earthly son. I also love Jesus.”

The youngster also said that God would “always be the number one person I look up to.”

“It was so cute and innocent,” said her mother, Erica Shead, to WREG. “She talked about how God created the Earth.”

The girl’s teacher did not agree. Not only was Erin she was not allowed to write about God, she was also told that she couldn’t leave the assignment in the school but that it must be taken home with her.

” . . . (M)y teacher said I couldn’t write about God. She said it has something to do with God and God can’t be my idol,” Erin told her mother.

Instead of God, her daughter wrote about Michael Jackson, a choice the teacher found acceptable.

Furious, Shead went to the principal and asked to be shown the policy where it states her daughter can’t discuss God on a school paper.

Of course, there is no such policy. A school spokesman said teachers can’t promote religion, but there is no policy preventing students from writing assignments about any God or religion.

Thus far, the school has not determined what form of action will be taken against the teacher.

Shead told WREG she is still waiting to hear from the principal.

“I told the principal this morning, ‘Would it be better if she wrote about Ellen Degeneres?’ Of course there was no comment.”

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