It’s Time To Bring Back Prayer In Public Schools

The Federalist ^ | June 4, 2021 | David Marcus

[Vermont Lt]

Yeah…this will never happen.

I would prefer they teach reading. Or even some math.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

And what do we do when the local Imam is allowed to come in and lead the prayers?

Children need to learn to pray at home and know that they can talk to their Saviour anytime, even while sitting at their school desk - one on One.

[Ann Archy]

WAAAAAAYYYY PAST TIME!!

Kicking GOD and His Son, Jesus, out of our Blessed Country, has caused ALL the Problems we have......ABORTION, SEXUAL PERVERSION, SEXUAL EVERYTHING, TRANSGENDERISM, HORRIBLE SCHOOLS, CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, MARXISTS, etc.

[RedStateRocker]

As long as there are final exams there will be prayer in public schools.

[RedStateRocker]

Exactly.

Anything the government does to promote or protect Christianity it must, by law, also do for Islam.

Nobody can be stopped from praying by anything other than death; public, organized prayer is the function of CHURCHES.

[right way right]

It’s never too late for Obvious Man.

[frank ballenger]

.... two minutes of silence ....

I would like that enforced for AOC, Maxine, Schumer, Don Lemon, Tapper, Rachel Maddow.....

Just a little peace and quiet.

[glimmerman70]

Should have never been taken out. In 5th grade our teacher would lead us in prayer in the morning. Or a moment of silence to pray. Short prayer and pledge of allegiance. I remember being young and teacher teaching us songs. This land is my land and songs like that.

[Kaslin]

How about teaching History, or speaking correctly. Things like "Me and my..." Make my eyes roll. I was taught by my teachers to always name the other person first and than continue with and I

Anyway there is so much they should teach, but don't

[Kaslin]

Absolutely.

[edweena]

Well, it would not even be possible to agree on pronouns for the God to whom generic prayers would be addressed. Does anyone think two minutes of strenuously enforced silence in the typical classroom would improve anyone’s spirituality?

[RedStateRocker]

Frankly one hell of a lot of conservatives seem to never have learned that “Leftist”, “Marxist”, and “Terrorist” are singular, not plural. I cringe at, and of course ignore any writer who can’t get those right. Can’t count the number of times I see “Then the terrorist win” here.

[Alberta's Child]

Public schools have no place in a free nation. Screw the prayers. Just close the damn schools.

[Alberta's Child]

There are a lot of loosers who don’t know how to spell. :-P

[EinNYC]

I strongly support prayer at home; not in publicly funded institutions like public school. There are people of many religions attending America's public schools and it is absolutely unfair to have prayers of one religion be forced on kids of other religions. I have personal experience with this. I am Jewish. My parents were Jewish, too, but not religious. That I took on myself 45 years ago and never looked back. But I always had a strong Jewish self-identity. In the public schools I attended, anti-semitism was very much alive and well. In elementary school, I had a kid call me a kike--right before I bloodied his face with a length of bike chain I was using on my bike at the moment. In jr. high, the music teacher put me out in the hall during class because I refused to sing Xmas carols, knocking me off the honor roll that semester. I had a teacher tell me in high school that my "skull would have made a great paperweight; Hitler knew what to do with you people". I had another teacher put his arm around me, declaring, "I love Jewish people" when it was obvious he didn't. Do you think I was going to utter prayers foreign to my religion and declare adoration to deities not part of my religion? And how I used to love Xmas time and Easter, when otherwise non-religious students would "remember" that "You Jews killed JC!" and fling that accusation at me and the 10 other Jewish students. How utterly pleasant it was to be targeted with suspicion and scorn for weeks at those times of the year. Not.

School is not the proper venue to teach religion--the HOME is. Parents must teach this, not leave it to a government-funded institution. Schools can be fine places to learn math, English, science and American history, but not religion.

[TangoLimaSierra]

That’s “losers”.

[frnewsjunkie]

As of later years, when people “got smart and saw prayer as bad”... yeah... there are people out there who have no sense.

When I was a kid in school, they had prayer if anyone wanted to and no prayer if no one wanted to. It didn’t matter.. it was not thought of as evil... it was a part of everyone’s life. The 3rd grade teacher said a prayer before lunch, for as many years she taught. we had a church type program just about every week... no one complained. We ... the whole school.. walked to the local church for Good Friday Services.. no one complained.

They just want to raise a stink to show they are so smart.. when they are low on the learning scale...

Then one day a daughter in law of a friend from way back... said she’d take her kids out of school if they brought the bible back in school. I wanted to kick her, but she was on one of those social things bragging about how free she was.

I see them as unnecessarily rebellious over nothing to fear but they fear it anyway... heaven forbid one of her kids learned a bible verse... the youth has become the rebellion of the year... every year.. they don’t have common sense but they do know how to cause a ruckus... just for the heck of it.

back when I was on FB, she was sounding off on things she thought she knew. I knew who she was but she didn’t know who I was. I knew her mother in law from childhood.. I knew that mother’s father also that long... he registered me to vote my very first time.
as she went on and I was engaging her... I finally ask her what “joe blow”...(I said his real name) would think abut all this today... she shut up for a bit... so I went on to tell her I grew up with that family in our neighborhood. She came back on to say she was taught to respect her elders and so she had no more to say.

I knew her to be a smart >>>> so I enjoyed stopping her with her friends on board also.. never hurt ... she still does not know who I was... and FB is a thing of the past for me.

[bgill]

Not sad at all Madalyn Murray O’Hair is rotting in the ground.

[Jan_Sobieski]

How about just math? Real math…not the common corps obfuscation. And no woke CRT crap!