Do you really think that there should be prayer in public schools? What about atheists or people of non-Christain faith? Why should they be forced to listen to prayer? Our country was not founded on the basis on Chrisianity. It was founded on the basis of acceptance and tolerance. Public schools are not established to convert students to Chrisianity. And there are better ways to reduce teen pregnancy than prayer.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, honestly I can say that we need prayer in public schools, and yes the Country we live in was founded on Christianity. Take a look at a dollar bill ("In God We Trust"), there's also the pledge of allegiance (don't even get me started on that). Also if you look at everything that God stands for (The ten commandments make a great example), you will see that it can only do good. I mean take the ten commandments away and what do you have: You should steal, You should lie, you should committ adultery, you should murder, not honor they neighbor, etc. I understand that many different religions exist it the public school system, but we have to listen to them. No one is stopping Atheists from voicing their opinions, but the moment that a Christian mentions God, they get in trouble. Look at science classes now days, all they teach is evolution, not creation. Evolution has been proven false by many scientists. In fact, Darwin even said that it was all fake, he just wanted to get a rise out of people, and teach them to question things.

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Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...

To me, that answers the question of whether it's federal or state.
Now, as to whether the states shouldrequire prayer, I'd say heck no. Well, not public schools. Will a mandatory prayer in school increase children’s' faith in God? I think not. But it can create a very small divide between the children who have been taught the meaning of prayers at home and those who have not. This rift has the potential to widen, ostracizing either the Christian born children or the children of other faiths / atheists.
Of course, that's for the younger grades. Just try pulling that in a high school... I know a lot of kids at my school would fight against a mandatory prayer. It just couldn't happen. So how can we morally force six-year-olds into doing something, knowing that if they were old enough to understand what was going on they would refuse?

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Originally posted by RockFaerie:
I think that prayer in school is one of the greatest things the supreme court could do for our schools, after all our Country was founded on the basis of Christianity by our founding fathers. I recently looked over statistics for when they took God out of school, and the crime rate, along with teen pregnancy dangerously rose.

Do you really think that there should be prayer in public schools? What about atheists or people of non-Christain faith? Why should they be forced to listen to prayer? Our country was not founded on the basis on Chrisianity. It was founded on the basis of acceptance and tolerance. Public schools are not established to convert students to Chrisianity. And there are better ways to reduce teen pregnancy than prayer.

I think that prayer in school is one of the greatest things the supreme court could do for our schools, after all our Country was founded on the basis of Christianity by our founding fathers. I recently looked over statistics for when they took God out of school, and the crime rate, along with teen pregnancy dangerously rose.