Early childhood religious formation should always start the child’s immediate family, no one else.And exactly how do you expect a first grader, a kinder gardener, or pre-schooler to remember to pray when it’s not reinforced by the adults in authority over them?
Their families. Parents, grandparents, siblings, should be a teens’ first and best religious/spiritual models.Or who’s to show the high school-er that religion isn’t just a child’s game? That it’s real and important?
No one is stopping a religious child from keeping God our of her thoughts and actions regardless of where she is right now. No one is stopping a child from believing that God is important and acting accordingly.If the Christians don’t think it’s any big deal for kids to spend the majority of their day keeping God out of their words, thoughts and actions, why should a kid think God is important?
I support that as well. If Islamic nations can do that to their children, a Christian nation should be able to as well.Perry said he would support “a constitutional amendment that would allow our children to pray in school any time that they would like.”
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They are not really public schools.I’m old enough to remember bible reading before classes, either by a teacher or student, in the auditorium in the New York City public school I attended as a child. Most of the children in the public school were Jewish since they came from a largely Jewish neighborhood. However, none of the teachers was Jewish due to the fact that, at the time, New York City rarely, if ever, hired Jewish teachers. Even then, I wondered why prayer was taking place in school (although it was mainly from the Hebrew Bible) since it was not a yeshiva or synagogue. A year or two later, the readings stopped. I have no objection to students’ praying individually whenever they wish–especially before exams–but I don’t want organized prayer being led by teachers or administrators in public schools. They’re called PUBLIC schools for a reason: they are open to the public, meaning a diverse population of religious, as well as non-religious, beliefs. Teaching about religion in public school is one thing, as is individual student prayer; but organized prayer is quite another.
You certainly don’t want anyone from a teachers union having anything to do with praying. That would be a scary prayer.They are not really public schools.
They are really government-sponsored schools, run by teachers’ unions.