Teacher sues over digital fingerprint requirement
A kindergarten teacher is suing the Texas Education Agency, claiming that a new requirement that all teachers provide digital fingerprints violates her religious beliefs. Pam McLaurin, a teacher for 20 years, says she believes the digital fingerprints to be the satanic “Mark of the Beast” foretold in the Bible’s Book of Revelations. “She truly believes the repercussions for that fingerprint would be very serious,’’ her attorney said.
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