The topic of praying in public schools was introduced over fifty years ago. This controversial topic has been and still is running through our school systems since the early 1960s. It started becoming more of problem during high school football games when players started praying before the game. Parents of the children who did not participate we complaining about the praying. These kids were Mormon, Catholic, or had no religion and did not want to participate in the “Baptist Church” beliefs. In the first amendment, it states that we have a right to have a religion and the separation of the first amendment of church and state (Schwadel, Philip). Some believe that praying in public schools goes against the separation of church and state. If
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This is a time for kids to either pray, think, or just stand there in silence. Some kids and teachers use this as a moment to pray, and some do not. Hunter Hallman, a third grader at a southern school says that this is for people to think about Francis Scott Key. His mother was unaware of the moment of silence until he gave a more realistic answer a couple minutes later. “Sometimes I think about the ceiling fan or the backs of people’s necks,” (Irwin, Victoria). This has been the issue with schools and the Supreme Court ever since they put a ban on praying in schools nearly fifty years ago. The “moment of silence” is not exactly a prayer but a time in the day that kids can think or do what they want to. Being a law in twenty-nine states, this is a very controversial moment in those school districts. Seven of those twenty-nine states do not allow students to pray/talk about praying during this time of the day. The laws have made it to where the schools were not allowed to have the students pray, rather reflect on that day’s matters. Some may worry that if we allowed the schools to pray it might lead to religious minorities in the schools. Although this may be true, they are giving their students a time to think but not allowing them to think about what the students want to
This is a time for kids to either pray, think, or just stand there in silence. Some kids and teachers use this as a moment to pray, and some do not. Hunter Hallman, a third grader at a southern school says that this is for people to think about Francis Scott Key. His mother was unaware of the moment of silence until he gave a more realistic answer a couple minutes later. “Sometimes I think about the ceiling fan or the backs of people’s necks,” (Irwin, Victoria). This has been the issue with schools and the Supreme Court ever since they put a ban on praying in schools nearly fifty years ago. The “moment of silence” is not exactly a prayer but a time in the day that kids can think or do what they want to. Being a law in twenty-nine states, this is a very controversial moment in those school districts. Seven of those twenty-nine states do not allow students to pray/talk about praying during this time of the day. The laws have made it to where the schools were not allowed to have the students pray, rather reflect on that day’s matters. Some may worry that if we allowed the schools to pray it might lead to religious minorities in the schools. Although this may be true, they are giving their students a time to think but not allowing them to think about what the students want to