Prayer In Public Schools

Should you be able to show what you believe in at school, The first Amendment to the U.S constitution says “religion clause”- to create rules about how faith and the government interact. On clause gives citizens the right to freely exercise religious statements ; the other prohibits government (including taxpayer - funded public schools) form establishing religion. Senator philip hart quotes “ I'm a Catholic and I hope a devout one, but I think that the public school classroom is no place for me to try and impose my world formula for prayer on children who don't share it, and for that very reason, I don't want my children in a public school classroom to be exposed to someone else's religion or formula." students of any culture should be allowed to prey when they need to if a …show more content…
Some people might say “all the kids that want to pray in school, why don’t they just go to a school they just go to a school were all they do is pray and learn about the bible”, “Why can't they pray in a private area’s; asked to be excused from class to go pray in the hallway or at lunch time the can simply pray without letting people know their praying by closing their eyes and looking up”, “Why are students even praying at school do they really have to pray at school can’t they pray before leaving school and then pray when they get home or even pray at church”. Despite all the options students have why should they have to do this, what if you were a christian and your child made the decision she or he wants to go to a public school and you said sure why not your child goes to school and the next thing you know you get a phone call from there teacher that she said a prayer out loud today would you get mad at your daughter or your son? She or he wasn't hurting anyone she or he didn’t break the law so how are they in