Religion In Public Schools

A Liberal View on Religion in Public Schools There is a big controversy trending in public schools. Religion in public schools has been a leading issue in the United States and many people are reaching out to schools, religious figures, and political figures to either keep faith in schools or to eliminate it. As Americans we usually tend to automatically form an opinion on big controversies. My first stance towards the subject of religion in schools was to side with keeping religion in public schools. The founders of the United States set up a foundation based on religious ideologies as a structure for our nation that was also used in schools and is still used in schools today. In this paper I was challenged to look at a liberal point of

A moment of silence can be considered a moment of meditation or prayer and can cause a deviation with the taxpayers and the school officials. Another vast dilemma is student-initiated prayer. She sees that extreme Christians are the ones who propose this idea. The author worries that having students initiate a prayer can lead the minority to feel smaller than others and cause them to feel like outsiders. Having the students initiate prayer can cause bullying and all sorts of discrimination. Gaylor believes that by forcing a prayer, voted by the majority, is considered it to be an abusive and heartless decision steered by school authorities. She mentions that instead of educating students to organize group prayers that they should focus more on what school is for, and that is to learn the fundamentals of math, history, science,

She brings up how politicians mention the lack of school prayer and how we cannot progress without it; also the fact that the government should not have a say on whether public schools should have prayer; and trusting the parents and churches to keep religion out of the governments hands. When it comes to what is right for our children, I can see her point in all of this. She acknowledges that religion should not affect the children’s rights, according to the first amendment; freedom of religion. I do however, believe that there is nothing wrong with having religion in schools, in which can be any religion not just one; because we are the United States, we have many different ethnicities with many different religion. However, the liberal group can disagree and say that there should not be religion at all. Moreover, today, it is easy to see who the liberal groups are and who the conservatives are. In which, the liberal population is growing. Although our nation was set up on a foundation of religious ideologies; it is progressing very quickly, and furthermore could most likely remove all prayers from public