Should Prayer Be Allowed in Schools?

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Should Prayer Be Allowed In Schools

With all the arguments on whether prayer should be allowed in schools, the history behind all the debate on this issue is back and fourth if they should have it or not. Prayer should be one of the main priorities in the day-to-day bases. This day and time, U.S. citizens don’t want to hurt any ones feelings such as; prayer or even reading scripture from the Bible. This great country that we live in was founded upon God and we have gone so far from it in the past two hundred years or more. All the debate goes back to probably a few people that didn’t want prayer in schools anymore.
Public Education dates back to the Colonial Times in the fourteenth century when New England’s “surrounded schools” was the earliest text was the New England Primer. This was the standard way of teaching young children to use biblical sources. Thanks to the men and women that had the guts to stand for their religion. This helped our society thanks to the ones before our time who stood for God and made this place the greatest place to live on planet earth. Even though most of America was God fearing and prayed for what ever was on their heart, there were so many debates on having prayer in the schools. “Leo Pfeffer was the chief legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress played a key role in many cases before the Supreme Court dealing with separation of church and state.” People like Pfeffer, have ruined it for a lot of people that may want to pray and read biblical scripture and other important things to be Christ like.
Although there has been a struggle over the issue of public schools having prayer, it has been one of the most revolving debates in U.S. history. Many people in our little community have oft...

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...d daily, but the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag. Church hymns were even sung throughout the school day. Singing the Hymns varied from state to state.
The public now days don’t want to introduce religion to public schools because it may not be normal in the every day life of every student. So what we need prayer today more than ever whether you want to hear it or not.

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