Posted on 01/19/2024 7:18:58 AM PST by spirited irish
Kindergarten children in Decatur, Mississippi will no longer be allowed to pray before they eat lunch.
The school district took immediate action after they learned that a teacher at Newton County Elementary School had been leading children in a prayer before lunchtime.
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One can pray anytime, anywhere.
Absolutely. And good to see articles like this one. Embarrassment may be the only way to change this stupidity.
I would like names. Names of the people preventing someone from praying.
A Christian woman was expelled from the Temp!e Mount for praying silently. I’m Jewish. I said a silent prayer in Hebrew. I wasn’t caught.
> a teacher at Newton County Elementary School had been leading children in a prayer <
Children should be allowed to silently pray before a school lunch. That should go without saying.
But a teacher should not be leading the prayer. No way. It’s not the job of a public school teacher to be giving religious instruction of any kind. After all, suppose your child is Christian, and the teacher is Muslim. Would you really want that teacher to be leading your child in prayer?
As a side note, I’m old enough to remember (as a student) when public school teachers did lead classes in prayer. Those prayers were nondenominational, and they were a good thing.
But times are different now. Can we really trust a school board or a teacher to pick the “right” nondenominational prayer? Nope.
It is impossible to stop someone from praying…even if you remove their prayer group.
Exactly.
As long as I get to pick the prayer, I have no problem with a teacher leading my five year old in prayer.
Doesn't that make it a Jewish/Christian prayer?
I don’t think they can do that. No matter how much they try.
Also, the left forgets that it is not just Christians that pray. There are several other religions that do so, Muslims being one, and they are not going to take kindly to this edict. And, they are not known for “turning the other cheek”.
I just went against Free Republic tradition, and read the entire article. I even read the school superintendent’s letter. The article’s headline is misleading, and perhaps deliberately so.
The school district addressed the teacher’s behavior (leading a class in prayer). That action was banned. The school district did not ban the students from praying.
The headline of the article is misleading. Kindergartners are allowed to pray (at least per the First Amendment of what's left of the Constitution).
What is not allowed is for a Newton County Elementary School teacher (of unknown religious affiliation) to lead the children in a lunchtime prayer (to some unspecified deity).
The school district addressed the teacher’s behavior (leading a class in prayer). That action was banned. The school district did not ban the students from praying.
but muslim kids are allowed to freely pray.
https://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/are-muslims-allowed-to-pray-in-public-schools/
He teacher could assign a student to lead the prayer-
Also we have had case after case of coaches praying with their students before a game, getting banned from doing so, on.y to have the sc step in and rule that they can do so.
They're saying the teacher is not allowed to pray...and I hope she sues their pants off...and gives any monies to a Christian Orphange.
How inverted has this nation become when the ONLY free speech not allowed it religious speech?
No one is forcing a child in this setting to join in.
If that were the case, I’d accept your objection. But it’s false.
They banned the teacher from leading the prayer, which is understandable given the current state of things.
The Supreme Court hopefully will take this whole issue soon and throw away those insane late 60 and 70s rulings that basically declared freedom of religion is freedom from religion.
I wasn’t there when she prayed. It happened before we visited the Temple Mount. We were warned not to pray because of what happened to her. I don’t know what prayer she said.
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