Say what ya want, but when there WAS prayer in schools there WASNT shootings in schools....True?

Question

i am non religios by the way...i am a chirstian for lack of a better word, and I am alos 34 and there WAS prayer when i was in school.

Answer 1

Yes, that is true.
People raised their own children rather than rely on a "village" to perform the task. There were no gangs attempting to smuggle weapons into the classrooms. Graffiti was shocking to behold and seldom seen. It was extremely rare to see anyone even spit on the street. In all the years of schooling from first to twelfth grade I knew of only one pregnancy. Drive-by shootings did not kill infants in their high chairs and millions of unborn babies did not die every year out of convenience. Children were taught the true meaning of respect.

I do remember saying the Lord's Prayer as a classroom activity just before saying the pledge to the flag, all the way up to the sixth grade. And, yes, it was a public school.

Answer 2

I don't think it had anything to do with prayer...it had to do with respect and kids several years back just were taught more respect at home.

I don't think there should be prayer in school...there are too many different religions and beliefs and no way to accomadate all of them during a prayer time, and if EVERY belief can not be accomadated then we just need to keep religious things out of the school....

a moment of personal silence for our troops or something may be a good thing..but prayer has no place in schools.

Answer 3

What gets me is that everyone ASSUMES u mean A Christian prayer.....all they need to do is set aside a time 15 minutes TOPS every morning for prayer, meditation, etc...if you're Christian pray to GOd, if you're Jewish, do you thing, if you're Muslim, pray to Allah, to each hisown...if you're Atheist, sit qquietly, etc etc etc.....And to the woman who PURPOSIVELY wrote X-mas EVERYTIME, I think thats sad.....Whether you believe in God or not, I feel you did that purposively since Christians say writing X-mas is taking Christ out of Christmas and if you take Christ out of Christmas you're doing Christmas for the wrong reason. To each his own, no doubt. But I can remember being inthe 4th grade and Mrs. Stallinds would lead the class inprayer EVERY morning. Things were different back then, a LOT different.

Answer 4

YOU do the learn! because of the fact the ten commandments and prayer have been taken out of colleges there is recorded documentation that not in basic terms shootings yet all varieties of sin has skyrocketed in our childrens! Drug habit, alcoholism, premarital intercourse, teen pregnancies, habit to porn, all varieties of violence, escalating to homicide, to not point out a mushy DECLINE in scholastic scores around the board! in the experience that your straightforward in any respect, you could`t deny that scholars in any respect grade ranges have dramatically decrease grades than scholars on an identical grades thirty and 40 years in the past! Ask any instructor that`s been around because of the fact the Sixties or perhaps the Nineteen Seventies and that they could enable you already know that youngsters at the instant are not getting to grasp as plenty nor are they being taught as much as interior the previous and it started out to cave in only approximately to the day in sixty 3 while the commandments have been outlawed in colleges! verify the information! AND it`s domino-ed in each era in view that! Lawless babies strengthen into lawless adults who advance greater lawless babies and so forth and so forth! get rid of God`s regulation and guy is going immoral each and each time!

Answer 5

We didn't pray in school and I am 33. I think that the issues now are waaaay different than when we were growing up. Kids have more pressure than we did and it seems as tho most of America myself included, has lost sight of family values and good old-fashioned discipline. Jesus I sound like an old person.

Answer 6

False.
Went to public schools from grades 1 through 12 (1964 through 1976). There was never, ever any organized prayer in school. The law then was the same as it is now. A student can pray all they want in school. It is just that the school can not organize, promote, or require such prayer.

Answer 7

I like this quote:

as long as there are tests in school there will always be prayer!

Answer 8

maybe, but you don't have the proof for that. But, I know that the people who prayed at my school also liked to harass all those that didn't have a mustang or the right clothes and all that. I was on the receiving end of a lot of punches and the like, simply because I didn't pray with them......personally, I this is the reason I dislike so many christians. they are the reason I can't go into public places alone.

Answer 9

Yes. Although there's no connection there. Even if we would have continued to force students to comply with Christian ideologies in schools (which is wrong), these kinds of events are inevitable.

The real problem isn't a lack of religious discipline in schools, it's parents becoming more and more irresponsible with their children.

Answer 10

Every fact about our educational system prior to 1960 points to a better system.

The system has grown steadily less efficient, less safe, and less orderly since that time.