Should prayer be allowed in public schools?

Separation of church and state is a MUST! At last count I think there are a couple hundren different religions in the world. If you allow one, you have to allow all. There is no time for school work. Worry not!!!! As long as there are tests, there will be praying in school.

No.

I attended public school in my elementary days and we always pray. It is a very basic thing in our life, to pray. Faith is very important, without it, life on earth is very shallow and no direction.

I do believe that they should pray in school. When I was a child we learned the lords prayer. The reason I believe this is not to force the beliefs on people, however, I believe for children to make and educated spiritual decision in life they should know at least some about... well.. all religions... alot of parents these days.. dont believe in God... so on so forth... well that decision should not be forced on the children either... and.... not teaching them anything about God in my opinion in doing that exact thing.

What I don't like is the fact that one woman (which clearly is not the majority of the American people), Madeline Murry O'Hare, who was an atheist, managed to get prayer out of the schools way back years ago. I think from then on, schools started going to heck and back. Atheists don't like Christian beliefs imposed on them; the opposite is true for me--I don't like having atheist beliefs (or non-beliefs, if you will) imposed on me, especially when the aforementioned atheists do not represent the majority of the American people. That's what I can't stand.

I agree with you,people should be allowed to pray in public but the ones who don't have those beliefs should be allowed to sit out.

Prayer as an organized activity has no place in public education. If a student wants to say a silent prayer there is no problem with that.