Hi Isabel C.,
The only answer I have for that is maybe the Illinois Consitution has something in it in regards to endorsing a religion.
Maybe we should ask our new President. He’s from Illinois and a Constitutional scholar. Maybe he’ll know. Oh nevermind, he probably proposed this himself years ago.
And please explain to me how creating a 60 second moment of silence to reflect is forcing kids to pray. I’ve been in the public middle and high school classrooms here in Texas when they do this and I can assure you that 99.99% of these kids are not praying. They are free to do whatever they want (homework, sleep, write a note...)as long as they are quiet. Although I saw a lot of teachers who didn’t even enforce the silence. It’s a joke. I can’t imagine it’d be any different in Illionis.
I say if they can’t prove that the moment of silence is being forced on kids by being rigorously enforced, then there’s no violation of anything and there’s certainly no damages so this is just a ploy to further erode even the slightest hint of Christianity in the schools and ultimately the public arena.