Student Banned From School For Reading The Bible According to recent reports, a 12-year-old student in Marshall, Missouri was banned from school because he was reading the Bible in class during free time. Loyal Grandstaff and his father are now speaking out against the incident. There are kids running around disrespecting their teacher, kids running around cussing and everything else and theyre practically getting into no trouble at all, Jeff Grandstaff told reporters of the incident. It should be noted that Grandstaff was not reading out loud or forcing his beliefs on his classmates. In fact, his teacher told him that any reading of the Bible during school hours was not allowed. 