10-01-2010, 01:35 PM
Mike Sellers wrote:In the public school in which I taught, I would not uncommonly have 9-12 year olds bring their Bible and pray before the bell rang. Often other kids would ask them about it and I'd just sit back and let them discuss it as kids. Until the bell rang. Then I led the Pledge of Allegiance, but I, myself, omitted the "under god" words. The kids never knew. It would have been as inappropriate for me to have discussed that with them as my leading a prayer would have been. Kids can bring their religion into public school and they do. They just can't disrupt the school day by their actions, whether that be acting out in class or standing in the hallway proselytizing.
The people who get it wrong also think a kid can't pray in school. A kid can pray all day in school if he or she likes.