Apparently the citizens who agreed to live under the Constitution in the first place thought there should be prayer in the schools where they sent their children. They did not consider this to be a violation of the first amendment or they would never have agreed to live under that in the first place.
Our citizenry did not wish to create godless schools. Even now if given an equal choice between godless schools and schools that acknowledged God, parents would overwhelmingly send their children to the schools that acknowledged God.
You have a right to your opinion and you have exactly one vote. But your opinion is on the wrong side of history.
Parents did not vote to toss the acknowledgement of God out of "their children's schools. This was done by judges who ignored the intent of the Constitution and began acting as legislators.
Back in the good old days the ONLY prayer in schools was Christian prayer. It was just a given that Christians got to pray. Minority religions were ignored and forced to listen to Christian prayer. That is not right. That is the very definition of Christian privilege. That is not America.
If there is to be prayer in schools then Wiccans should be able to thank the earth mother, and the Krishna's should be able to beat their drums and chant. But we know that would be crazy and schools would be battlegrounds for who gets to say what prayers when, how and where. That is why there should b e no prayer of any kind in schools while school is in session or at any school sponsored function. Students of any denomination should be permitted to gather and pray out side the school before classes start or to pray QUIETLY over their noon meal.
And of course any student can always say a prayer internally within their own heart and no one will know. You can pray allowed in your own home, your church ,at family gatherings. You can pray internally while walking down the street, at work and at the park.
A lot of the carping by Christians today is really about loss of Christian hegemony and privledge which we should not have had in the first place.
Did they consider that Christian prayer in schools would make Jewish kids feel marginalized? In fact not just feel marginalized to actually be marginalized?