Saying prayers in Public schools a good thing or a bad thing?

Originally posted by Fiery Eyes
There's nothing wrong with a student praying in school, that is THEIR choice to pray or not to pray, however It is not suppose to be an Adult lead prayer only STUDENT lead. You can pray anytime you want in school, but a teacher can NOT make someone pray.

^That was the sort of prayers I was promoting.

I remember hearing that in american schools, prayer is banned. Alot of my Chrisitian freinds are just as horrified at that as I am.

oh no, now you'll definitly go to hell 😐

do it when and where you want, but don't bother people with it and not during schooltime

it's also quite discriminating against other religions... they can pray, but what about a muslim? they can't do anything? or non-believes, they get set aside in this cause they have their own views?

K i dont think its right for just a regular school they have religious schools ment for that. Like i went to a catholic school, where catholics go we all followed the same beliefs and religion. i dont think its fair at a regular school, where all different religions go to, and everyone has different believes, have to pray to someone they might not even believe in.

Originally posted by liltiggasmootay
K i dont think its right for just a regular school they have religious schools ment for that. Like i went to a catholic school, where catholics go we all followed the same beliefs and religion. i dont think its fair at a regular school, where all different religions go to, and everyone has different believes, have to pray to someone they might not even believe in.

Originally posted by finti
prayers is a personal matter

It's as simple as that.

Not in public schools. It's in direct violation of seperation of church and state.

Originally posted by finti
thats what personal matter means, noone can deny someone to pray inside of them, out load though is a total different matter alltogether

Perhaps rather than being 'Prayer time', it should be 'Quiet time'?

in a public school, it should better be "no time at all", and if you for some bizar reason can't hold it up till you're home, go somewhere during break

Originally posted by yerssot
in a public school, it should better be "no time at all", and if you for some bizar reason can't hold it up till you're home, go somewhere during break

I go back to my earlier point. Quiet time at the end of a lesson calms down the children.

well, some ideas that religions have, should get flushed down

prayer under any form should not be used to calm children down, society battled for many centuries to seperate state and church, lets NOT mix them yet again

Frodo: Perhaps rather than being 'Prayer time', it should be 'Quiet time'?

It's moment of silence, not prayer time. You have the choice to pray at that time, or just think, sit there in silence. NOthing wrong w/that, it's not making anyone pray. In public school as long as it's student lead, they can pray out loud, but a teacher can not lead it, they also have "See You at the Pole", all the kids meet at the flag pole, normally before school and a student speaks, and then a student leads them in prayer.

Why should they set a special time for kids to pray in class? I just don't see the need. How many times do you suddenly feel the need to pray in the middle of class.. I mean come on. Why not pray at lunch time? Or during free time a teacher assigns.. since prayer would be something the kid does in their head and not out loud, why should everyone else have to shut up so they can pray?

It's NOT prayer time, it's a moment of silence, YOU can use that time however you want. It does quiet the kids down if they are rowdy, they don't have to pray, they can just sit there, and it's only a MOMENT, not long at all.

the government is going overboard trying to rid of religion in their context already. can't they concentrate on better things!?

Agree w/you Miahera

OK but you can't really use that time however you want because you're not allowed to talk. And I still don't understand why the kids need a designated moment of silence if they are just going to pray in their heads. What's stopping them from doing it at lunch or any other free time when they are free to do what they want? And I'm still going to think of it as prayer time if they are going to have a mandatory moment of silence as a substitute for school prayer.

You can think of it anyway you want, but it's still just a "moment of silence", which in alot of cases it does calm the kids down if they are rowdy. They can think about their behavior, work, just rest, or pray, but any way you look at it, it does calm kids down.

We have the pledge of allegiance every day... doesn't calm anybody down just shuts them up for 30 seconds.. sometimes. But we only shut up so the pledge can be said. We either shut up or say the pledge. Just like in this "moment of silence," we would either only shut up so others can pray. And I still want to know what is stopping these kids from praying anytime they want? If they really want to pray that bad are they seriously going to wait for us to assign them a moment of silence? They could pray in their heads in the middle of class.. nobody would know the difference.