Prayer in School

Prayer In School

A very controversial widespread issue today is the right to have prayer

in public schools. The proposed amendment reads:

"To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates

of conscience. The people's rights to pray and to recognize their belief,

heritage or traditions on public property, shall not be infringed. The

government shall not require any person to join in the prayer or religious

activity, initiate or designate school prayers, discriminate against any

religion, or deny equal access to benefit on account of religion. (AVSP)"

This would permit but not mandate school prayer. I think that the

government should be focused on the school's academics, not what religion

they are to study. The proposed amendments would cause nothing but

trouble considering that there would be many arguments on what beliefs

should be taught. Religion is private and schools are public.

Having any prayer in school goes against the basis in which our

country was formed upon. America came into being because colonists

wanted religious freedom. Our founding fathers carefully wrote the

constitution to grant the freedom of separation of church and state. A

prayer created and supported by a government violate the very essence of

the spirit in which the US was formed. (Haas35)

Therefore, having a prayer in school would be unconstitutional. "A

radical school prayer amendment would attack the heart and soul of the bill

of rights which safeguards the rights of the individual from tyranny of the

individual." (Jasper96) Teachers are public