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Prayer provides a sense of continuity with the child's home-life: Why remove their sense of
continued well-being?
It does no one HARM.... |
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Yes, it violates freedom of religion.
And separation of church and state wasn't what it is today. |
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Yes. As long as the school isn't forcing anyone to pray or promoting any religion. |
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The obvious speaks for itself. |
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You cannot ban prayer in school or anywhere else, there really is no way of banning someone praying
silently to themselves. What we *CAN* and *SHOULD* ban is making it a public display. Enforcing
any kind of public religious adherence is indeed a violation of the Constitution.
However, that doesn't mean you can't close your eyes and pray to yourself whenever you want to. |
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Its part of being free! |
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Prayer of any kind should be permitted in all public schools, so long as it does not interfere with
the official curriculum. I should think that banning students from praying in their own time--such
as during lunch, while in the schoolyard, as well as before or after class--would contravene the
First Amendment. On the other hand, no public school teacher should ever be forced to make time for
prayer during class. Students must be permitted to freely exercise their faith, provided that it
does not interfere with the learning experience of other pupils.
I can think of a solution for the debate over prayer in public schools, which has lingered over the
United States for years. The US should consider setting up a system of publicly funded confessional
or religious schools, similar to what exists in Ontario, Canada's largest province. This may be
controversial among those who believe in the absolute separation of church and state, but such a
measure would allow for government authorities to more closely regulate what is taught in Christian
schools (ie: Creationism/evolution), while ensuring that children can pray and receive a
confessional education within the public system. |
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Honestly I think it was a wrong move to take prayer out of school, with the very few ppl who aren't
Christians in the world or that don't believe in god, those ppl have the right to say, I don't want
to pray with you and walk out of the room. Even though all of that was banned.
When I was in high school we still had our assembles and we still prayed....nobody had a problem
with it. But I probably just went to a good school where everybody went to church and believed in
god. But it is a violation of Christians rights, when they put unproven theories in the text books
to be taught to our young kinds in school! |
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It depends on whether or not the schools in question are government schools. If they are, it's not
unconstitutional since the constitution mandates a church-state separation. No public resources
should be used for religious purposes.
Teaching religious doctrines to children should be considered a form of child abuse, taking
advantage of young minds just as paedophiles take advantage of their bodies. For this reason, it
should be illegal to attempt to inculcate any religious beliefs into anyone less than 16 years old.
Offenders should be dealt with severely and their names places on a publicly-available list of those
who have committed crimes against children. |
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You’re attempting to use the First Amendment in order to justify the act of forcing your beliefs
onto others. I assume you know that the First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion”. With that said, you’re perfectly allowed to conduct
private prayers in public school systems. What you’re not allowed to do is attempt to force
everyone to practice this prayer with you, as everyone does not possess the same religious beliefs
as you. |
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26 Apr 2008 21:52
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