In, “Native American Religious Liberty: Five Hundred Years After Columbus,” by Walter R. Echo-Hawk, he writes about the religious oppression of native americans. According to Echo-Hawk, United States settlers used religion to justify the Indian Removal Act. He writes that, “a basic goal of federal Indian policy was to convert the “savage” Indians into Christian citizens…” (Echo-Hawk 277). This drove the white settlers to implement different laws that banned Native American religious practice.…
These questions will be posed to educational leaders such as teachers and superintendents to address the expectations for future decisions to restore prayer. The outcome from this school districts can be offered globally to educators nationwide to initiate a vision and to confront the disarray regarding the removal of prayer from public schools. The cons of prayer in public schools are undebatable according to the U.S. courts, the pros of prayer allow for students and teachers and other agencies to not be disturbed with the constitutional rights and respects each person to follow their own consciences regarding religion (Chilson,…
Religious Freedom Social-issue Damon Fowler, a juvenile protestant against religious activities, expressed his perspective of religious affairs before an upcoming graduation ceremony. Thus, his acts to stop the forthcoming religious practice that would have occurred during the ceremony took place, and the religious prayer was cancelled. Therefore, the aftermath of the high school student opposition did not cease with only the religious intervention. The complaint that was reported by the student, was also followed by an individual leaking his name as the one behind the complaint. As result, Damon Fowler has been publicly demeaned by teachers and other students, physically threatened which also involved death threats, and was ostracized from…
It is common for minors - understood as children under the age of 18 - to wish to be adults who can make their own rules and decisions, and to hold the perceived unrestrained freedom adults possess. This restraint and lack of freedom felt by minors, particularly teenagers, stems from the need for children to be parented and guided - a concept children and teens do not always grasp in the time of their youth. Yet one aspect of this “teen-angst” does ring true; minors do not always have the same rights and freedoms as adults. However, according to a history of court cases, First Amendments rights are ones that all people, inclusive of minors, hold. Therefore, in accordance with precedence set by court cases and the First Amendment, the novel…
Having a school system where some religions are favored over others defeats this very idea. There cannot be a preference of religion in the education system. It would be wrong for the Bible to be taught while the Qur’an is not allowed in the same school. These kinds of religious discriminations are not only unacceptable for our education standards, they are unacceptable for the United States Constitution which is why the school system needs to keep a strong understanding of the separation of church and state.…
Many Christians contribute the moral decline of our country to the fact that the Supreme Court mandated prayer in school was unconstitutional fifty years ago. Is it time to put God back in public schools? Adam Hamilton addresses this topic in his article “Put God Back in Public Schools?” first on his blog and then published in the Huffington Post, a liberal-oriented news source, in 2013. Hamilton is senior pastor of The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, one of the fastest growing churches in the country.…
Public schools should’nt put religion back in schools. One reason why is that many students have different religions, and they have different beliefs. Some students might be Jewish or Muslim and practice different beliefs. Imagine how hard and uncomfortable it would be for these students.…
Banning Books has always been a touchy subject. Many people have so many different religions and believes that it is hard to follow what is acceptable anymore. Banning books is a form of censorship that schools use to stop students from reading inappropriate content found inside literature (). It can be found all over the world, from the west coast of North America to Japan (). From the problem of banning books, to the reasons of why it happens, and how we could stop this, banning books is a large problem for the common intellectual high schooler and teacher to deal with.…
In recent years, many schools have created banned book lists, banning certain books due to content deemed unsuitable for young readers, which naturally raises a question as to the justification and necessity of such a decision. I wholeheartedly disagree with this decision, as not only is censorship in general invasive to free speech, a right protected in public schools, but detrimental in the case of literature, being that there is an epidemic in the younger generation of the condition of semi-literacy. Therefore, if a student cannot obtain their literature of choice, the only logical position for them to take is to forgo reading entirely. For those reasons, it is my firmly held belief that banning any type of book would result in tempering…
There will always be conflict in schools, but making religion a required class will help out all students. The more students learn and discover the more comfortable they will feel about a topic or someone. Learning about different religions not only will help with social skills but also may help one with personal values. One could spend their whole life not knowing what religion they actually are and then learning about religions may open their mind to a new way of…
Police simply cannot walk on to a crime scene and know exactly where the shooter is or what is going on. Officers also cannot get there faster than a weapon can be unloaded. Whereas, having a trained permit holder in the classroom who is experiencing the shots first hand could slow or stop the attack (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus 173). One objection to not waiting for a police officer is that students who carry guns are not properly trained.…
Do you think that prayer should be allowed back in school? Prayer in school has a constitutional right under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It's a big deal!! Many school districts think it wouldn’t be a favorable idea because it is too much of a distraction to students and teachers. Also, some may find it offensive that a school would sponsor a religion (Eckholm).…
America is no longer the land of the free. Under the First Amendment, the citizens of the United States are guaranteed many freedoms, including the freedom of speech. However, this right has become more limited over the past years. Not everyone has the same beliefs, but this should not prevent citizens from freely expressing their First Amendment rights.…
Prayer in Schools Inside America Court cases, laws, and even violations to the First Amendment, these are all problems of the same topic, prayer in schools. Many articles that have been created over school prayer and people want to know if they really do have to have the right to pray in schools, or if it is limited in this so called “public” area. According to many authors, they talk about the fact that not being able to pray in school limits the people’s religious freedom that is given to them by the First Amendment. School prayer is a continuous subject that has gone through many court cases, and is no longer allowed to be sponsored by the government,also it is in the school everyday within the Pledge of Allegiance. Prayer in schools started…
The second argument Dawkins makes is that religion and God create a false hope to all those who put their faith in it (Dawkins 2014). He believes religion in the face of God encourages people to believe in a higher being who oversees everything and plays are part in the lives of each person on earth (Dawkins 2014). God and religion also creates a false hope that there will be white gates waiting for the after death (Dawkins 2014). Dawkins believes that God is a being that controls and influences everyone’s life, but that may not be the case. In church it is a common practice to teach about free will.…