Secularism in the Schools In 1962 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of school-sponsored prayer being unconstitutional, as in the case of Engel v. Vitale. This case involved state officials of the Broad of Education in the Union Free School District in New York who composed a prayer which was given to the principal to be read in each of the classrooms in the presence of the school teacher at the beginning of the school day. It read “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country”. This was to be a part of the “Statement on Moral and Spiritual Training in the Schools”. The statement was to be part of a program that would instill moral values in the
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These atmospheres provide a more structured environment and there is more chance of prayer in the privately owned schools and Christian schools for one these entities do not come under the governmental laws, there is a chance of a more disciplined behavior. So as in anything the rules are instated according to the beliefs and behavior of the leadership. When you compare the times when prayer was a part of the school activity, behavior problems were minimal, you would only have things like talking, gum chewing, getting out of the recess line; now that prayer has been taken out of the public school system there is very little enforcement of morals, there is a high rate of crimes, drugs activities, drinking, violence, pregnancy, suicide, etc. There are now laws on how much you can discipline your child if at all in some cases. The law was actually put in place to prevent abuse of children by parents, foster parents, babysitters, etc. unnecessarily. Some of these same adults who drink and use drugs discipline their children under the influence and cause great harm to the children, while people who just have a strong disciplinarian behavior may do more than what someone else would do. So at what level of discipline is acceptable? Some forms of discipline create behavioral problems in the child thus creating …show more content…
scores ever, after 18 straight years of decline following the 1962 ban on school prayer. Prayer taken out of the schools, secularism enters the schools. The government had stopped giving any type of public assistance to private and Christian schools because the Constitution says the government will be neutral in the attention they give to and religious entity. The following is a comment from a grade school parent concerning the decision on transgender bathrooms:
Interviewees: Comment on the schools instituting transgender bathrooms. Anonymous - It 's crazy how we live in a world that 's more concerned about a unisex bathroom instead of our children 's education...this will only confuse the minds of our children...and the worst part about this whole situation is Fort Worth is littered with low-performing schools and this is what my tax dollars are being spent on nonsense and foolishness for the children 's sake get some tutoring programs started or better yet supply the schools with pencil sharpeners so that my child can sharpen his pencil. I think this is the main reason these students are performing at a low level is because they waste time, money and resources on crap like
These atmospheres provide a more structured environment and there is more chance of prayer in the privately owned schools and Christian schools for one these entities do not come under the governmental laws, there is a chance of a more disciplined behavior. So as in anything the rules are instated according to the beliefs and behavior of the leadership. When you compare the times when prayer was a part of the school activity, behavior problems were minimal, you would only have things like talking, gum chewing, getting out of the recess line; now that prayer has been taken out of the public school system there is very little enforcement of morals, there is a high rate of crimes, drugs activities, drinking, violence, pregnancy, suicide, etc. There are now laws on how much you can discipline your child if at all in some cases. The law was actually put in place to prevent abuse of children by parents, foster parents, babysitters, etc. unnecessarily. Some of these same adults who drink and use drugs discipline their children under the influence and cause great harm to the children, while people who just have a strong disciplinarian behavior may do more than what someone else would do. So at what level of discipline is acceptable? Some forms of discipline create behavioral problems in the child thus creating …show more content…
scores ever, after 18 straight years of decline following the 1962 ban on school prayer. Prayer taken out of the schools, secularism enters the schools. The government had stopped giving any type of public assistance to private and Christian schools because the Constitution says the government will be neutral in the attention they give to and religious entity. The following is a comment from a grade school parent concerning the decision on transgender bathrooms:
Interviewees: Comment on the schools instituting transgender bathrooms. Anonymous - It 's crazy how we live in a world that 's more concerned about a unisex bathroom instead of our children 's education...this will only confuse the minds of our children...and the worst part about this whole situation is Fort Worth is littered with low-performing schools and this is what my tax dollars are being spent on nonsense and foolishness for the children 's sake get some tutoring programs started or better yet supply the schools with pencil sharpeners so that my child can sharpen his pencil. I think this is the main reason these students are performing at a low level is because they waste time, money and resources on crap like