Prayer In Schools
"Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."(Matthew 6:9-13- Bible 1427) This is the sound that filled classrooms across the nation, beginning each school day in 1960. Since then, prayer has been banned from the public schools. Although prayer in any religion promotes peace and abstinence and gives students a peaceful start on their day, it is still considered unconstitutional and has been taken out of the ...
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in the public schools. In America, whose motto is "In God We Trust", there is no affirmation of that claim in the schools, or public life; In 1999, 37 years after prayer was dismissed in schools, generation after generation is diverging from God and is perishing in iniquity.
The prayer issue has rapidly changed in the past three decades. For numerous years, after the ringing of the bell, the Lord's Prayer, or a short school written prayer, was recited throughout the classrooms by all students, teachers, and administrators. Students learned their alphabet by quoting scripture. "A" was not for "apple"; "A" was for "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Proverbs 15:1-Bible 983). However, in 1960, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an atheist, started to fight against the school prayers in public schools (Merritt 1C). She believed that making students pray was a violation of the first amendment. In 1962, prayer in public schools was ruled unconstitutional by ...
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four public schools around the country there is at least one Christian club (Beima 28). Today, despite the growing controversy, prayers are still allowed at graduations and baccalaureate services (Students Rights 22). Prayer in school has not been forbidden, but it has been swept under a rug. Although prayer privileges have been taken away, many still choose to pray. Over 2 million students and teachers participate in See You At The Pole, a national day of prayer among students, annually (Noles 1A).In Missouri, a student was given a detention for praying over his food; he still prays. Despite the nation's scorn, students still continue to pray (Barker 1).
Those that oppose school ...
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