Prayer in school, what do you want?

[USFREEDOM911]

if people/students want to pray, they should do it before school and not during. this should be a non issue.

But then, what are you going to do with all those students who find out they're having a surprise test?

 

[Don Quixote]

Christians are allowed to pray in school. Muslim students are allowed to pray in school. That's not the real issue, is it? The REAL issue is that you want mandatory, teacher led prayer like in days yore.

anyone that thinks that there is no prayer in pubic schools has not taken a test that they were not prepared for...that or they do not remember

oh well

 

[patriot66]

If you let Muslims Matt pray and rasta's smoke then you can have your pagan Christian chants

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/muslim-students-pray-school-maryland_n_2583118.html

 

[patriot66]

Ill stand up for school prayers as long as they do it on their own time,but not as a school institution.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/muslim-students-pray-school-maryland_n_2583118.html

 

[philly rabbit]

Ill stand up for school prayers as long as they do it on their own time,but not as a school institution.

Who do you mean by they? You sound like an ACLU lawyer now.

It shouldn't be anybody's business how communities set the atmosphere for learning in their own community schools.

If no reflection or influence of the community is allowed in the school, if school boards direct parents what they can and can't display in the schools and not the other way around, then you have yourself government schools.

 

[Jarod]

I simply find it entertaining that its the "Small Government Conservatives" who want the Government to lead prayer in PUBLIC schools!

 

[Red Mule]

From some of the replies, I'm not sure which side of the issue they are on. But, maybe I am just slow.

Children are impressionable, which is why both religions and tyrants want to get to them early.

Prayer assumes a God, therefore it is a form of teaching religion. Most prayers are specific to particular religions, which is even worse.

Our laws require us to send our children to school, although if you have the means you can pick a private school or home school, thus giving you more say in what is taught. But if schools teach/approve/endorse a particular religion it is the poor working families that will have the fewest options. That bothers me, even if the religion is subscribed to by the majority of the community or the school board. We should not have a "state religion" even if it is the majority religion. I think the folks that originally wrote our constitution understood this, even if they did screw up on things like slavery and voting rights.

I think the place to teach religion is in the church/temple/mosque/forest/etc. where law does not require us to send our children.

 

[Phantasmal]

How about lawyers (government agents) shutting the Hell up and stop telling community parents what Johnny should and shouldn't have in his back pack because they're afraid Johnny might have a Bible in it?

Ridiculous, please show proof of your claim.

 

[signalmankenneth]

 

[wanderingbear]

Who do you mean by they? You sound like an ACLU lawyer now.

It shouldn't be anybody's business how communities set the atmosphere for learning in their own community schools.

If no reflection or influence of the community is allowed in the school, if school boards direct parents what they can and can't display in the schools and not the other way around, then you have yourself government schools.

Im sorry,but public schools are government schools.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Im sorry,but public schools are government schools.

Is that why you never attended one?