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There are several reasons for the purpose of our blog. Instead of making a video and having to sum up our purpose about Religion in Public Schools in about a 5 minute time span we have made this blog, one so we can put up articles that relate to our topic and our viewers can read further into the topic and get an idea with what the issue is. A second reason is so we can express why teaching religion in public schools is important to us and to other people nationwide. A third reason is so people can post on our blog and give us their feedback and opinion on whether or not teaching religion in public schools is a good idea. And lastly, the blog is made because it is a good way of organizing thoughts and ideas and there is a variety of sources on the blog so people can chose what they want to read, watch, or look at.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012




Pros & Cons on Religion in Public Schools


Pros


  • School prayer would result in many societal benefits. The public school system is tragically disintegrating as evidenced by the rise in school shootings, increasing drug use, alcoholism, teen pregnancy, and HIV transmission.
  • It promotes the beneficial aspects of religion, not sectarianism.
  • Allowing children religious freedom permits them to gain a level of spiritual enlightenment, and keeps them away from the temptations of peer pressure and gangs
  • Americans believed if more people were religious there would be less crime and immorality.
  • If religion was taught in schools, people from different faiths could learn about each other, promoting harmony
  • Teaching about various religions in public school offers the opportunity to expose children to a variety of different faiths, and cultures.
  • School prayer would allow religious students an opportunity to observe their religious beliefs during the school day .

Cons

  • The separation of church and state was designed to avoid imposing a single faith on everybody
  • There is now a large and growing population of non-Christians in the U.S., including Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs.
  • Organized prayer would exclude some students who are not of that faith. This could lead to other divisions within the school.
  • Teaching children about other religions or denominations can be considered indoctrination, as the line between teaching and preaching might prove too thin for some parents
  • Because public schools are government funded, prayer led by school officials or incorporated into the school routine amounts to government-established religion.
  • Violates the “separation of church and state.”
  • Public schools are intended for education, not religious observance or proselytization
  • The public school system is created for all students and supported by all taxpayers. It should therefore remain neutral on religious issues over which students and taxpayers will differ.
Sources
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8 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 12, 2015 at 2:31 PM

    I liked more pros part!

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  2. Isaiah LaSalleDecember 11, 2015 at 10:56 PM

    Very well needed and I'm a high school student and this is what my project is on, my partner and i had to complete our speech on prayer in public schools so we needed pro and con sides of the argumentitive speech as well as we needed a solution and so after diligently searching the web for well written facts, i found this site and though other sites did not have a noticeable change from the pro to con side i found this web site so from special thanks from my School to your memory i thank you.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2016 at 4:27 PM

    this could also cause bullying

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2016 at 4:29 PM

    this could also cause bullying

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  5. UnknownSeptember 22, 2018 at 6:51 PM

    There is already religion in public schools, and there always will be.
    All education is religious.
    All laws are codified morals.
    All actions are applied morals.
    All morals are applied religious perspective.
    Whose religion is the issue.
    Many refer to Jefferson's "wall of separation," by which he said the state has no right to impose its views upon the Church or to dictate to the pulpit in any way, but by design, few actually know that this is what he said he meant.
    That is a failure of our public schools, which ironically were founded in order to enable the people to read their Bibles, because "What makes people good Christians also makes them good citizens."
    It's a shame so few people ever learn their history.
    That is another failure of the public schools, and it comes from a hostility, not a neutrality, toward one religion in particular.

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