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Religion in Public Schools
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Religion In Public Schools
In the past Religion was confined to the state now with religious
freedom everything has changed or at least started to change. In order for
religion to be in a private school now it is again trying to be in Public
schools. People ask “why cant freedom to acknowledge god be enjoyed again
by children in every schoolroom across this land?” In the past, a long time
ago children always prayed before class started and before lunch. But
things h ave changed, “in 1791 the separation of church and state” started.
Although it was made clear about the separation of the two “as late as 1951
some twenty states permitted schools to begin the day by reading aloud a
passage of the bible.” Bu t that had to stop. People didnt have the same
beliefs when it comes to religion, if a family absent even believe in god
why should their child be forced to pray? On many different occasions
questions similar to this one were brought up and complained about. That
is what started it all real big.
When complaining, arguing and fighting all started over the silent
moment. In 1978 a few lawyers got together and considered a constitutional
law. The original law said that public school teachers in gr ades 1-6
“shall announce that a period of silence, not to exceed one minute, shall
be observed for meditation.” This law did not work for long, because it
still allowed oral prayer in public high schools. Later in 1981, the
Alabama State Senator D onald G. Holmes successfully passed a bill that
included all grades calling it “the moment of silence” this law said that
“the teacher (was) to announce that the silent moment may be used for
voluntary prayer.” Although it would have to be si lent prayer. Even after
this new law started the lawyers that were opposed to this were trying to
say that students “do not have a right to pray in school” silently or
otherwise because of growing impressions that affect their life. The
silent mom ent supposedly “(forced) religion on children.” I dont agree
with that at all, if there has to be a moment of silence then any child can
use that moment however he or she wants, it does not necessarily have to be
used fro prayer. Usually “the chi ldren who have been brought up with
prayer or some type of religion are usually proven to be better” kids. I
have friends who go to private schools where praying in class out loud is
perfectly O.K. and normal. This praying in the classroom usually would
have a pretty good size affect on the rest of a persons life. Although
when praying aloud it could force one type of religion on a student rather
than having them have more of a choice of what type of religion they want
or if they even want to ha ve a religion. When there would be the religion
in the classrooms. “School children not participating in the prayers or
the bible readings (would be) asked or required to leave the room.”0 This
has been another big dispute because the bill of rig hts states that there
shall be “freedom of religion”1 therefore this means that if a person does
not believe in god or what ever the instance might be then they dont have
to. This means if you want to