I wonder if anyone has the stats on how many school shootings there were before prayer was taken out of school and how many there have been since prayer was removed.Spoken prayer as part of the curriculum or events with a primarily secular purpose (the only things banned by the SC, by the way) was removed in 1962. Between then and the mid 90s there was one prominently reported school shooting, the "I Don't Like Mondays" incident. That's a 30 year gap, a bit much to establish causality.
Getting rid of curricular prayer isn't what caused the problems we are having. I graduated high school in 1980 and while there was no prayer, students were definitely accountable for their actions. Indeed, my age group and the one immediately following were the "Reagan Kids" that supported Ronaldus Maximus 2-1 in 1984, and kicked the modell out of the Iraqis afterwards.
It's the removal of that accountability by liberal school districts at the behest of the NEA and the Clintonian DOE that has caused the problems we see today. Both during school and after graduation. Not even 10% of recent HS graduates are worth anything in a manufacturing plant.
-Eric
Wow, are you in for a shock. Using the stats contained in the website supplied to me, there were 58 school related shootings, stabbings, bombings or combinations therof between 1962 and 1994. I discounted those incidents that were political in nature, for instance, the Kent State shootings and other such incidents. There was 5 such incidents before 1962.