Banning Prayer in Public Schools :: Religion in Public Schools

Banning requester in world SchoolsThe courts have govern against petitioner in school. Many agree with last yet many disagree including myself. Prayer should be allowed in cosmos school because it is already recitationd, it prevents im clean acts, and it enhances the skill environment. The issue of prayer in school has been debated in the U.S. since the North West Treaty (1787and 1789) which states Religion, morality, and the knowledge existence necessary for good government and the happiness of man kind, schools and the means of learning shall forever be engorged. Thus, religion, which includes prayer, was deemed to be necessary. Many people believe that prayer is not allowed in the public schools. In fact prayer is allowed in the school sy al-Qaida on buses, at the flagpole, in student apparitional groups, and in the cafeteria. However, prayer is not permitted in the classroom itself when class is in session. Prayer in class would violate the principles of church- state separation, which is defined by court interpretations of the First Amendment. This requires that public school teachers, principals, and boards to be religiously neutral. The lawsuit for this is to prevent any arguments among students and teachers about their specific religion. Public schools had prayer for about two hundred age before the supreme court ruled that state- mandated class prayers were unconstitutional (Engle, 1962) The fact that prayer was practiced for nearly two-hundred years established it by precedent as a beneficial practice in our schools. Since the court outlawed prayer, the nation has been in steady moral decline. Former secretary of education William Bennett revealed in his cultured indexes that between 1960 and1990 on that point was a steady moral decline. During this period divorce doubled, teenage pregnancy went up 200%, teen suicide increased 300%, squirt abuse reached an all time high, violent crime went up five hundred% and abortion increased 1000 % . Morals must be taught and they offer not be taught properly without religion, because most of the operose moral beliefs stem from religion such as the Ten Commandments. There is a strong correlation between the expulsion of prayer from our schools and the decline in morality. The third base argument is prayer enhances the learning environment at public schools. Prayer enhances the learning environment because when there is a test coming up or a paper due, you think to yourself, How am I waiver to do all of this, and do well?