So what has been the impact of the taking prayer out of schools since 1962?

Question

In each study you can clearly see a negative impact starting around the year 1962!

Teenage pregnancy rates have gone up 500% since 1962. Unmarried mothers have risen dramatically since 1962. The divorce Rate is so high that many young children don't really understand what a family is. Violent Crimes have risen steadily since the early 60's, and our prison system is bursting at the seams.

The SAT scores have steadily declined each year for 18 straight years since 1962 and continue to decline or be low. As the poorly educated enter the workforce how can our companies compete with other international industries?

1940 - with prayer top 7 problems
1 talking out of turn
2. Chewing Gum
3. Making noise
4. Running in the Halls
5. Cutting in Line
6. Dress-code violations
7. Littering

1990 - 30 years without prayer top 7 problems
1.Drug use
2.Alcohol abuse
3. Pregnancy
4. Suicide
5. Rape
6. Robbery
7. Assault

How is one MORE step away from G-d possibly the answer??
I'd like to know.

BAD LIBERAL...none of those things were in schools...that was all in courts

and it was all in courts before they took down the 10 comandments!

Answer 1

bravo!!
couldn't agree more.
Merry Christmas!

Answer 2

It should be noted that REPORTED teenage pregnancies are up. At that time, it simply was not reported. All that was known was that suddenly a girl was no longer going to your school. It was not a subject to be spoken about. If your parent had good incomes, the pregnancy was taken care of, otherwise, a family sent the child off to a school for unwed mothers. What changed that was not the taking of prayer out schools, which it never was, but the change in the home about the subject.

Out-of-wedlock birth is no longer feared because of the beliefs that regardless of the sin it is forgiven so why adhere to any standard? Parent longer wanted the responsibility of dealing with a pregnant teen, and demanded the schools do it.

As for illegitimate births, it should be noted that teenages do not have highest rates of it. Woman age 24-28 do.

Many of these problems also result from people demanding children be given mature responsibility at younger ages, when they are not ready or capable of such thinking. Females don't reach full maturity until age 24 and males at age 30. Our life spans, which has shorten for 6000 years has now reversed. We are living longer and maturing slower. Further, Japan does not have these prob-lens in their schools, and the don't teach religion at all in school.

It should be noted that as a rule, JW children don't experience these problems, so the question should be where are the churches falling down?

Answer 3

and this could not POSSIBLY be because our society has become more violent.

Rap music that glorifies drug use, pimping, and murder is the most popular music of the day. the biggest movies are ones that deal with extreme violence.

but this can all be blamed in a .30 second prayer said before class. Bull**it. societies change, i find it really sad that people will take the time to blame the absence of prayer in a school for the crimes of people that would not pray ANYWAY.

and besides if people taught their kide some morality at home and became responsible parents. and did not allow their 8 year old to listen to Public Enemy and Ice T albums and not explain the differance between creative music and real life to their teenagers. we would not have these problems in the quanity that we do.

but we al know that no god fearing christian has ever killed (or burnt someone at the steak) for no apparent reason.

keep your religion our of my kids education. and i will keep mine out of yours.

Answer 4

Do you already know that considering that a vaccine grew to become into stumbled on for smallpox, violence has risen? So do you think of that we ought to constantly provide up vaccinating for smallpox? And the upward thrust in violence additionally precisely correlates to the addition of "below God" interior the Pledge of Allegiance. So do you sense that the U.S. has gotten worse after the addition of "below God" into the pledge? The *in straightforward terms* people who could be mentally negatively plagued via prayer being taken out of colleges are the those that *think of* they could't proceed to exist six hours an afternoon 5 days a week without mandated prayer or they are going to pass out and commit violent crimes. those human beings quite does no longer be atheist, because of the fact atheists don't think in prayer, besides. so which you're certainly insulting theists with this question. there's no correlation between there being no mandated prayer in colleges and violent crime. it quite is something that grew to become into thoroughly made up via people who desire to rigidity their faith on all and sundry else.

Answer 5

It's horrible, everything that happened since 1962, when the beatles released their first album.

Ban music! It's corrupting our children!
Wait.. how do we know if it was the prayer, or music?

Never mind. Whatever the problem is, I'm sure forcing kids to worship your particular g minus d is the answer.

Answer 6

Really, its all my fault. I was born in '62. Actually I've had a lot
of help. A few other things happened since then.

Seriously I think the biggest change has been the
ease and rapidity of communication.

Answer 7

School needs to get all the way away from your phony God. Don't blame the problems in school on Godless schools. Just look at society it is going to hell in a hat basket and taking the children along with it. All of the problems you say are with schools actually occur outside of school it only becomes a school problem because it effects school it is not a fault of schools. xx
And your damn symbol still looks like a bomb.

Answer 8

we have more parrots and pundits pushing thier views of religion on others

for humor? lower test scores by religious people, higher by those who simply use what god gave them - a brain and the right to question not just take claims as facts or believe the history revisions

Ironically, the generation before that was worse! more STD's, more pregnancies, etc all during the "golden ages" we simply have more info and evidence (also hated by pundits of ilk) to track what did in fact happen to the most christian and holier than thous and thier families regardless of thier prayers and claims of salvation and righteousness

Answer 9

Yeah, that whole move-away-from racial-segregation was a downward turn too, eh?

Civil rights. Rosa Parks. Equality for women. Terrible.

And when I was a boy, all this was fields.

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You mentioned divorce and the prison system. Changing the rules as you go along?

Answer 10

As usual, you are long-winded and are fond of distorting facts to fit into your warped personal agenda. The stats you quoted have nothing to do with the aboliton of prayer in school; to say they are directly linked is irresponsible at best and a flat out lie at worst. The prohibition of prayer has been a step forward, since our kids have always lagged behind other nations in the sciences and maths, and thus abolishing a fairy tale ritual of praying to a mythical figure like God can only be construed as progress. As we weed-out religion, which is no more viable than Greek Mythology, and embrace science and reason, we and our kids will prosper.

Answer 11

Yeah, and some guy just got shot to death on Christmas eve at a crowded shopping mall in Florida. Apparently it wasn't a good idea to take Christ out of Christmas either.