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Should Prayer Be Allowed In School
Brandi Johnson
8th grade english
Mrs. King
April 26, 2016
Should Prayer Be Allowed In School…? True or false? Students and anybody else in a public school have a right to quietly pray any time they want.
Reason one... prayer should be allowed in school is that FCA can help with life at home struggles in school and lots more like if you are going out on a mission trip and you see kids that don’t have a home, lots on streets and or living on the streets it’s sad because we don’t see that here but in other countries we do like surname, purdue, and even more countries. FCA can save these kids that don't have a home and parents can adopt the kids and parents have to talk about it and then they pray about it. Lots of kids at school go to FCA
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the Public schools steam and school principals can’t stop us from praying. Praying is like making an official part in school the kids are saying it voluntary for us to pray in schools. We have individual rights and prayer. The kids that are 5,8 and 10 year olds are saying it’s voluntary because of our rights and freedom to pray. According to Charles Haynes he says that “something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.” So we are allowed to pray in groups or alone as along as we don’t disrupt the school or teachers teaching the class. I seen God’s not dead 2 the teacher was talking about history and the past presidents and the girl said like jesus and they went to court just because the teacher answered the girl question. If you go to public school’s you will see kids praying around the flag poles, sharing the faith with classmates and sharing or reading scriptures. The u.s. Supreme Court has never ruled that kids can’t pray in school the first amendment to the constitution say we have the right of free speech and religion. According to the ward melville high school they have banned the christian clubs because most of the kids that are not christians are not liking the others with the christian groups. This say that people should get judged by their actions, not by what their religion if they believe in our how publicly or how loudly they pray. When we pray the flagpoles are we going to judged by our faith and the walk with GOD. Payer can keep kids out of trouble, pray can improve on brain development. On June 25, 1962 they took the school’s prayer out but, we are still praying even though the took the prayer out. The school’s are banned in GOD because they took him out but yet why would they it's our religion if you don't want to pray then don’t but if you want to pray then praying. The schools are not letting us pray but, we still pray everyday.

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