Prayer Prohibition In Public School
Prayer in public school should be permitted and voluntary. Public school prayer should be optional and done in the manner the student wishes. According to the first amendment, every American has the right to freedom of religion which should include prayer even in public schools. In early times students were forced to say Christian prayers and recite the bible. Here, any prayer should be permitted of any religion. If the student wishes not to pray, they don’t have to. Ever since June 26, 1962 prayer in public schools has been outlawed. (Andryszewski 4). Everyone has a right to practice a religion and many benefits can come from prayer in school such as promoting diversity. Public school prayer should be …show more content…
Bible reading and Christian prayers in the 1900’s was apart of the curriculum no matter what religion you were. “As a Jew I attended a majority Jewish school the prayers were exclusively Christian”. (Andryszewski 20). Again, this will not be. Any type of prayer from any religion would be welcomed. Parents in the past have not agreed with the thought of prayer in school. They think it would be government based values in children. Terry Arcola, a parent, said “schools don’t put values and morals in kids, parents do and if they can’t we can’t do our jobs” (Andryszewski 23). Others believe prayer could give the government the idea to be involved in sponsoring prayer. Yet again, prayer from any religion such as Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Paganism, Sikhism (etc.,) would be allowed. Government would not sponsor anything. Students would be given roughly ten minutes to go to a private place for prayer alone without authority there. Parent’s have rights to their children beliefs. The student would not even have to tell their teacher their religion or what prayer they are doing. They would just go and do
Prayer in public school should be permitted and voluntary. Public school prayer should be optional and done in the manner the student wishes. According to the first amendment, every American has the right to freedom of religion which should include prayer even in public schools. In early times students were forced to say Christian prayers and recite the bible. Here, any prayer should be permitted of any religion. If the student wishes not to pray, they don’t have to. Ever since June 26, 1962 prayer in public schools has been outlawed. (Andryszewski 4). Everyone has a right to practice a religion and many benefits can come from prayer in school such as promoting diversity. Public school prayer should be …show more content…
Bible reading and Christian prayers in the 1900’s was apart of the curriculum no matter what religion you were. “As a Jew I attended a majority Jewish school the prayers were exclusively Christian”. (Andryszewski 20). Again, this will not be. Any type of prayer from any religion would be welcomed. Parents in the past have not agreed with the thought of prayer in school. They think it would be government based values in children. Terry Arcola, a parent, said “schools don’t put values and morals in kids, parents do and if they can’t we can’t do our jobs” (Andryszewski 23). Others believe prayer could give the government the idea to be involved in sponsoring prayer. Yet again, prayer from any religion such as Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Paganism, Sikhism (etc.,) would be allowed. Government would not sponsor anything. Students would be given roughly ten minutes to go to a private place for prayer alone without authority there. Parent’s have rights to their children beliefs. The student would not even have to tell their teacher their religion or what prayer they are doing. They would just go and do