You cant just toss God to the side and then expect Him to keep hanging around. I have relatives who are teachers and they cannot even proclaim their faith in desk ornaments or shirts or pictures, for fear that it will offend a student. My kids actually walk across the street during school hours for a class on the Bible. As the quip goes, "As long as teachers give math . Things like this is the answer to your famous question Why does everyone bash us? Shop; Recipies; Contact; crime rate since prayer was taken out of schools. Seems to ma a truly Christian country with real prayer in school would not have sunken to such obscene and inexcusable depts.! A Reasonable Response to Christian Postmodernism. After doing this for a few days, a teacher noticed and alerted the principal. Featuring Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry at the 1999 Ligonier conference. For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies are up 553%. Its much higher than the Atheist countries of Europe. 20%) and one of the highest Juvenile violent crime arrest rates have increased from 13.7 to 40 per 10,000 population. The New York school children which prompted the Engel vs. Vitale ruling had simply prayed: Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee and beg Thy blessing over us, our parents, our teachers and our nation.. If one truely believed in God or wanted to, theres always Church to go to. What happened to it takes a village to raise a child. So, if your kid wants to pray at school, so bet it. Right now in the entertainment industry things are either very naught with love for the self or very stupid NOT teaching you anything in a fun engaging way where you dont fully realize you are being taught something. It is our responsibility to instill righteousness in our children. I dont say the pledge of allegiance because of it being Christian yet it says and justice for all there isnt. Im not claiming that religion causes these problems (although Paul does make this claim), only that the claim that it prevents or attenuates them is falsified by the data. What does this Boycott have to do with this, nothing and yet, everything, drugs, guns and death. Even Jesus was against school prayer. But thats not what you want, is it? Just because you dont believe something doesnt mean it doesnt exist. I believe that god should not be allowed in schools because if he/she or It was allowed how would the other kids react? Not at all. If you dont ask for Gods covering then why do you feel he will do what you need when you need it most. Then there are those that feel that there should be a separaion between church and state and that religion needs to stay out of our public schools. The school district not only knows this, but they encourage the classes if that is what the kids and their parents want to do. However the faith continued to spread by means of peace despite the persecution. From most of the comments on this issue, one would think that nothing bad ever happened in school before prayer was banned. All the kids in public school are either arrogant to what higher being there is or just doesnt seem to care. So, in conclusion, keep your prayer to yourselves. Students may have spent less time at school than in previous years due to these modified procedures. Of course no one really knows what another is praying privately, nor should they.