Should Religion Be Taught In Schools

Should Religion be Required in Public Schools? For at least 20 years, religion in schools has been the center of every debate. Whether praying during a graduation ceremony or just simply praying to god for help on a test. The First Amendment made to separate the activities of church and state; religious or nonreligious. Some people believe that if schools were to teach students how to understand and respect people with other religious beliefs , religious bias crimes would disappear little by little and the world would be a better place. Religion should not be in schools because it's illegal to publicly express religion, forcing a student to listen to a religion they don't follow is unconstitutional and unfair, and students that don't follow that religion would feel uncomfortable listening to something they don't believe. …show more content…
is made up of a lot of different people, with a lot of different ethnicities, and with a lot of different religions. Our population is only getting bigger everyday. More people are coming to America and with all those people are their religions. In fact, before 2010 the foreign population in the U.S. was mostly taking over from Christian Europeans, then by 2010 54% of the population were Latin American, 28% was Asian, and 13% was European. Compared to 2004 (10%), the percentage of religiously bias crimes have gone up by almost 3x in 2012(28%). Some people believe that this change in crime is because of the lack of knowledge and understanding kids nowadays have on other religions. These people believe that for a student to be a decent citizen, they need to know the impact religion has had in the world and that