Title: How to have prayers in public schools -- legally
Headings: HOW TO HAVE PRAYERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS....LEGALLY
HOW TO HAVE PRAYERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS....LEGALLY
What effect would the reinstatement of Christian prayers have?
Public school prayer which preserves religious neutrality:
Disclaimer:
Related essays on this site:
References
Go to the previous page, or  return to the religion in the law menu, or choose:
Page Translator:
This page translator works on Firefox,
Opera, Chrome, and Safari browsers only
After translating, click on the "show
original" button at the top of this
page to restore page to English.

Content: Students would then have the right to pray, meditate, contemplate,  study, organize their day, settle and compose themselves, or engage in any  other non-disruptive silent activity. The enabling legislation would have to be carefully  worded to make certain that it is not being written to sneak prayer into the  schools. The end result would be that many students would elect to engage in  prayer at school. More details . As stated above, although prayers taught as truth are  unconstitutional, a public school course in comparative religion can,  (under certain circumstances) be constitutional. It is possible that  prayers and statements from a variety of religions and secular  philosophies could be read in the classroom without violating the  constitution. However they could not be  not taught as truth for the students to believe, but would have to be taught as  beliefs that various groups in society regard as true. Since the  readings would be given each weekday that the school is in session, a  full range of religions would be covered; no one religion would be  favored over any other. Statements from both religious and  secular sources would be included.