Religion in Public Schools :: Prayer in Public Schools

Religion in the Classroom In the past Religion was confined to the state flat with religiousfreedom all(prenominal)thing has changed or at least started to change. In order forreligion to be in a private initiate now it is over again trying to be in Public rails. People ask why cant freedom to acknowledge god be enjoyed againby children in every schoolroom across this land? In the past, a long timeago children always prayed before class started and before lunch. Butthings pretend changed, in 1791 the separation of church and state started.Although it was made clear about the separation of the two as late as 1951some twenty states permitted schools to begin the sidereal day by reading aloud apassage of the bible. Bu t that had to stop. People didnt have the samebeliefs when it comes to religion, if a family absent even believe in godwhy should their child be forced to pray? On many different occasionsquestions similar to this one were brought up and complained about. Tha tis what started it all real big. When complaining, rock and fighting all started over the si contribute second. In 1978 a few lawyers got together and considered a constitutionallaw. The original law said that public school teachers in gr ades 1-6shall announce that a period of silence, not to exceed one minute, shallbe observed for meditation. This law did not work for long, because itstill allowed oral appeal in public high schools. Later in 1981, theAlabama State Senator D onald G. Holmes successfully passed a bill thatincluded all grades calling it the moment of silence this law said thatthe teacher (was) to announce that the silent moment may be used forvoluntary prayer. Although it would have to be si lent prayer. Even afterthis new law started the lawyers that were opposed to this were trying tosay that students do not have a right to pray in school silently orotherwise because of growing impressions that affect their life. Thesilent mom ent supposedly (forced) re ligion on children. I dont agreewith that at all, if there has to be a moment of silence then any child canuse that moment however he or she wants, it does not necessarily have to beused fro prayer. Usually the chi ldren who have been brought up withprayer or some type of religion are usually proven to be better kids.