Editor: I am writing regarding the current controversy about religion in the public schools of Bulloch County as a two-decade veteran of work in the schools of this region. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Given the power teachers have over young minds and souls, the Supreme Court has interpreted this clause to mean that teachers, being government employees, must temporarily lose some of their freedom of religious expression while on the job in order that their actions not influence students toward religious practices their families do not support.