Should religion be allowed in school?

Question

Keep these things in mind.
If a teacher is allowed to teach children Christ when they ask, they also have the right to teach about Isis, Allah, ect.
If your child can were a cross to school with no reprocussions or judgements, mine can wear a pentacle.
If your child is allowed to hold a prayer circle ask for safe passage, then mine can make a circle and invoke the Gods for the same.
If your child can pray publicly, then mine can cast spells.
You can have it all or nothing. Why? Because this (at least where I live) is America and we have those right. You can't pick and choose. So should religion be allowed in schools, ALL of them, or none at all?

Oh ahahahahahah that Jesus scares me! Sorry I just had to laugh at that. Jesus is more then welcome in my home, along with RESPECT. I trust my children to maket hier own choices about faith. You kids can talk to them all you want. I have raised them with enough character to make thier OWN decisions.

Answer 1

For me, this is a moot point, and precisely why I homeschool. It is not the job of the US government to decide what my children ought to be exposed to; it's MY job.

Incidentally, the US Constitution is VERY clear on this point:
The government shall MAKE NO RULE [law, judgment or rendering of opinion about the correctness or lack thereof] regarding AN ESTABLISHMENT of religion [note that this is a noun and not the gerund form of the verb to establish] nor the free exercise thereof.

In short, the government may not:
* pass laws regulating the way religious establishments practice their faiths.
* Interfere with religious practice

This has come to mean that teachers, who are supposedly acting as government agents, can not teach religious subjects lest they violate the "establishment clause." The idea is that if a teacher teaches favorably about a given religion, he is "establishing" it. This is just legal hooey since the plain verbiage is about AN establishment. The word AN is an indefinite article and indicates that the word which follows is a NOUN and not a verb.

The long and short of it is: government, keep your hands off the churches and their practices.

That said, the US was founded partly as a business venture, and partly as a means of escaping being forced to be members of the Church of England. We are therefore rightly wary of attempts to Christianize America through government action.

Bottom line: if you don't want the government to interfere with the raising of your children and give them values the state approves of, educate them at home. They are, after all YOUR children.

Tom

Answer 2

Well religion is already allowed in schools, it's just not allowed to be publicly endorsed by the school. Private prayer or prayer clubs or whatever is ok, classroom prayer isn't. People can wear religious symbols all they want, the school won't recognize or display any.

Religion should only be covered in a religious studies class though, that's it. It's of course relevant to history, but only in terms of historical verisimilitude - i.e. can talk about the Inquisition, the crusades, how it influenced and controls kings and everything else. It takes up a huge part of known history. However rubbish that we know is false (the Flood, the Exodus, etc.) should not be taught in history.

Religion should stay very far away from science courses, there is a fundamental conflict of interests. However I think science classes should be updated a bit, so students are getting real education in subjects that are important and often misunderstood like Evolution.

Answer 3

Hi Jill,

I don't believe any religion should be taught in public schools.

But I DO believe all religions should be respected in school - public or private.

Sadly though, children can be such bullies. Badgering each other over race, shoes, wealth, religion, clothing.

If a person wants to avoid those not of their faith, they can send their children to a private school of their own particular denomination.

It disturbs me that a devout Muslim teen is not allowed an alternative to swimming class because they view co-ed swim class as improper.

But they'll make allowances for a vegan child to not attend a dissection class in biology.

A person's beliefs should be respected. As you say, you can't pick and choose. All or nothing.

There seems to be a big misunderstanding here between teaching religion and allowing religion. Religion in school has not been banned. That is a myth. What is true is that a teacher can't teach religion. A teacher can't lead a prayer.

Answer 4

Children are being taught Religion in schools today and do not even know it.

They are being taught about the Wars of the past and the History behind it. So if Children today are learning about the wars of the past and the movement behind them then why is there such a problem with teaching the Science of truth and fact.

Now if you are asking if a teacher should sit a child down and tell them that there is a "God", then my answer to your question is ....ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Answer 5

Its just that type of thinking that's breaking America! It should be more like majority rules, it's much better than politically correct. In my kids school, we could no longer call Halloween, Halloween, and we no longer can call Christmas, Christmas. We could no longer have witches and no longer have mangers. We have 'harvest festivals' and 'winterfest'.
That's why I believe it should be majortiy rules.
My son was told in the first grade by a mean spirited jehavoh believer 'there's no santa, your mom is lying to you.' Well, what a mean spirited sh,,. Even at that young age, he was full of selfishness and no control.
If people want to 'practice ' their beliefs, fine. Don't shove it in my face. If there are 999 kids in school who believe in Santa and Christmas, and 1 Jehovah Witness that doesn't, I think they'lll have to suck it up and go with it, or have the parents home school him. There are so many 'special interests' groups popping up, (WHO REALLY AREN"T< they're just a minority with ACLU on their side) they are breaking America and wasting taxpayers time by making sure their pathetic RIGHTS aren't stepped on, and making us pay for all their needs cause they're DIFFERENT-not SPECIAL.
So, I don't agree with your statement, all or nothing. It should be majority rules, and it should be by the specific city, school, region, whatever. Then, if a group of muslims want to move to one city and blast their prayers, go for it. If a group of Jehovah want to practice their believes, go for it; If Christians and Jews want to blend together, and not bash each other, and let each other practice what they want. go for it. Isn't that what most 'normal' people do now? Things are gettting out of hand. Then what about people who claim sodomy is OK with a kid? Should they have their heyday too? What if it's their religion? Does that make it ok? Get real.......................

Answer 6

enable's look no longer at merely the constitutional mandate, yet at why. As others have suggested, the form prohibits government (and by skill of extension government brokers and workers) from endorsing one faith over yet another or prohibiting faith. Does that prohibition clause propose that schools are unconstitutional by fact they limit prayer? No, by fact they do no longer limit the having or practising of religion, they only can no longer and don't enable instructors or the college itself to call for religious perception or to apply publicly funded coaching time on noneducational events like devotion. (extraordinarily distinction, gaining awareness of approximately faith is suited use). The splendid court docket has lower back and lower back affirmed that by fact toddlers are so youthful and so keen to have faith what they're informed by skill of authority figures (mum and dad, instructors administration) that for a school to look to choose a faith is like telling the youngsters THAT faith is extra precise. How does a instructor-led prayer reason harm? think of the confusion, embarassment, soreness, and the thoughts of disapproval for the youngster no longer of that faith. Is that ok? No. That exposes the youngster of a diverse faith, or none in any respect, to being seen as an interloper, to be the objective of bullying or teasing, to feeling that they are no longer welcome in school. that's no longer suited if we prize unfastened coaching. That leads us to a 2d difficulty, HOW. How do you incorporate faith, and maximum heavily, how do you pick which faith? there are 1000's of religions, how could you come across time for all of them? in case you pick the liberty to be your faith, you should preserve the suited for others to no longer be your faith.

Answer 7

I dont think that religion should be allowed in school. I dont think someone can teach religion without preaching it and it causes confusion on which one is the "best" especially in young children. I cant forsee any christian agreeing to allow all religions the same respect they give their own. Religion in school is a catalyst for disaster. Leave religion at home.

Answer 8

Religion should absolutely not be taught in the public schools. However, we all have the right to free religious expression, and I see nothing wrong with someone praying quietly or reading a religious text to themselves during their own free time, such as between classes. As long as it is not being forced on someone else and it is not disruptive, it should be allowed. There is a huge difference between individual expression and school sponsored expression.

Answer 9

The basics of each religion should be taught just for awareness, but absoltuely nothing should be preached. I will teach my kids in depth what I want them to know about their religion or I will send them to a private school within their religion for extra religious education.

Answer 10

none at all.That is a lazy way to indoctrinate.Schools are for learning FACTS. It is not as if there were no place to worship outside of school grounds. I daresay there is a plethora of religious institutions on every streetcorner. If religion,specifically ID is taught in school to balance out TOE. Then,likewise,a scientist should be allowed to speak after every preachers sermon. Keep religions out of schools,they can keep knowledge out of thier churches if they wish.