What is your position on “praying” in public schools?

Students should never be "required" to participate in religion.

I have no problem with giving kids time to pray to their god, but the 1st amendment, the freedom of speech, also covers a persons right to refrain from participation. Requiring them to pray takes away this right.

i had some feller start postin religious materials in my workplace once

i took em all down gave em all back to this guy and told him that i dont post electrotechnical literature in yalls church so dont post this shit in my shop

theres religious private schools for they that want mandatory prayers

or they can move to fuckin iran

and if kids in public schools is that devoted to theys religion nobodys stoppin em from prayin

if people want to pray, let them pray and if people don’t, well then they won’t,
It’s as easy as that
Maybe have a room for religious people who really need to pray due to their religion and let em do it in breaks

it should be a choice no issue with praying if a individual choices to do so.

we aren't a theocracy yet so no need to force anyone right now.

Rquired, no. Allowed, yes.

If you need to pray, you can do so at any time. I don't think God has prayer time for every time zone on earth to please people.

No, requiring students to pray is wrong.

There are so many different religions in this world. Why does religion have to be part of school? Why can't it just stay at home on your time in your own space?

Yes. I think it shouldn't be allowed to have a time where students are required to pray. They should be able to knock one out whenever they feel the need to do so.

I think it is cause there might be different religions among students.

Well of course in the USA we think of christianity but then with immigrants and what not, some of the kids might worship Allah Snackbar or budda.

We had religious ed in elementary. It wasn't required even then. I remember hearing aout how God was about love and forgiveness and turning the other cheek. YET, the religious ed teacher was some bitter old rude scornful cunt.

Its brainwashing. Kids dont know any better. Indoctrinating them with religious garbage is abusive imo.

As long as there are tests there will be prayer in public schools!

Required, absolutely not. Allowed, yes so long as it does not impede the experience of students who aren't dumbasses and chose not to waste their time.

I dont understand why its between ban all from praying vs forcing them to do so. Both break the law. Someone should have the freedom to pray if they wish but also no one should be forced to pray. One is going against seperation of church and state and the other is striaght up descrimination.

One of the many things that's messed up about the educational system in Britain - although it's far from the worst thing - is that denominational schools are run using government money. They're the local brands of Episcopalian in England and Wales, and mostly Roman Catholic in Scotland.

Where we live, the local primary school is run by The Church in Wales (Welsh brand of Church of England). When our daughter attended, she was subjected to subtle religious propaganda in various forms, including prayer at school assembly every morning. Parents can say that they don't want their child involved in religious crap, but doing that singles out the kid as different, which obviously isn't great. Since she had to deal with it, we made sure we spent a little more time talking about the absurdity and dangers of religion, and the end result was the opposite of what the school would have liked.

At least the school in Wales wasn't quite as in your face as the nursery and elementary school she attended in Italy, where every room had a crucifix on the wall, the staff all assumed that every child attending was Catholic and time was set aside in the school week for Catechism classes.

Schools (a goverment institution) and praying / relgion (the church) don't belong together due to the sacularisation by law in Germany. Sadly, there is still religious education in my country, but you can choose "ethics" as a equivalent subject which offers a more philosophical approach to certain topics rather than relying on the bible and religious beliefs in general.

I say is up to the school.not me