Which of the following are ILLEGAL or LEGAL in the USA (see details)?

Question

Please answer the following questions about legal prayer in public schools?

A. Is ANY and ALL prayer in school illegal?

B. Is leading group prayer in a private school club legal or illegal?

C. Are individual silent prayers in school legal or illegal?

D. Is leading public prayer for the entire student body legal or illegal?

E. Is it legal or illegal for a teacher to lead a class or club in prayer?

F. Is prayer before a school event, such as a sports event or graduation, legal or illegal?

If you know your answer is true, please state your source of knowledge.

Answer 1

Prayer in School - Prayer During Non-instructional Time
Students may pray when not engaged in school activities or instruction, subject to the same rules designed to prevent material disruption of the educational program that are applied to other privately initiated expressive activities....

Prayer in School - Organized Prayer Groups and Activities
Students may organize prayer groups, religious clubs, and "see you at the pole" gatherings before school to the same extent that students are permitted to organize other non-curricular student activities groups. Such groups must be given the same access to school facilities for assembling as is given to other non-curricular groups, without discrimination because of the religious content of their expression...

Prayer in School - Teachers, Administrators, and other School Employees
When acting in their official capacities as representatives of the state, teachers, school administrators, and other school employees are prohibited by the Establishment Clause from encouraging or discouraging prayer, and from actively participating in such activity with students. Teachers may, however, take part in religious activities where the overall context makes clear that they are not participating in their official capacities...

Prayer in School - Moments of Silence
If a school has a "minute of silence" or other quiet periods during the school day, students are free to pray silently, or not to pray, during these periods of time. Teachers and other school employees may neither encourage nor discourage students from praying during such time periods...

Prayer in School - Graduation Ceremonies
School officials may not mandate or organize prayer at graduation or select speakers for such events in a manner that favors religious speech such as prayer. Where students or other private graduation speakers are selected on the basis of genuinely neutral, evenhanded criteria and retain control over the content of their expression, however, that expression is not attributable to the school and therefore may not be restricted because of its religious (or anti-religious) content. To avoid any mistaken perception that a school endorses student or other private speech that is not in fact attributable to the school, school officials may make appropriate, neutral disclaimers to clarify that such speech (whether religious or nonreligious) is the speaker's and not the school's....

Answer 2

A: no....as a practical fact....I went to Abington Senior high...one of the schools that brought school prayer before the Supreme Court (Abington vs. Shemp). There were at least 3 occasions when I attended where prayer for someone who had just died was offered on the loud speaker. Prayer during the moment of silence is also legal.

B. It is legal. Most schools have groups like these.

c. They are legal.

D. It is illegal in most cases, but it does happen in other cases.

E. My understanding is that it is NOT illegal for a school authority to lead a group prayer in a voluntary, after school activity. Sports teams routinely have group prayers.

F. Legal

In every case where I stated legal...my source is personal expereince of the school systems. There is also nothing that particularly forbids these things in Abington V. Shemp. I have not researched or sheppardized every case that came afterwards, but I am well aware of what did occur in our school.

Answer 3

A) Legal as long as the school itself is not promoting or organizing.
B) Legal, private school is the key word, it would be illegal in a public school setting if it was a school organized club
C) Legal
D) Legal, again as long as the school itself is not promoting or organizing
E) Illegal if it is on school grounds or during school class time
F) Illegal since a graduation or sporting event is a school organized and sponsored activity

Answer 4

A: If you pray so that others do not know you are praying, as supposedly taught in "the Bible" what difference does it make?

B: If the club is for religion, have at it.

C: See A:

D: Illegal, (and no more correct than requiring people to perform pagan dances)

E: Illegal class, OK if religious club

F: Illegal but often done anyway

Answer 5

Prayer is not illegal. I have never heard of anyone ever going to jail for praying in any context. Mandatory prayer may be frowned on, but prayer happens every day, and it always will.

Answer 6

A) Yes, if not led by school faculty. Students can all they like.

B) Legal

C) Legal

D) Legal if done by a student of his or her accord. Many valedictorians choose to do this.

E) Illegal

F) Legal, if student led.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

No

Legal

Legal (if you mean just... personally.. one person)

Depends, a student may lead the prayer but the staff may not

Illegal

Depends, a student can lead it

Answer 9

A. No
B. Legal
C. Legal
D. Illegal
E. Illegal
F. Illegal

Answer 10

legal or not...the ACLU is going to come down on you big time if you attempt any of these.