School held prayer services before tests (Congress, illegal, March, high school)

[Greatday]

A Baltimore elementary-school principal used prayer services to prepare pupils for recent statewide tests.

For two years, prayer services have been held at northeast Baltimore's Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle School as the Maryland School Assessments, a standardized test for children in the third through eighth grades, neared. Fliers promoted the most recent event, on March 5, as a way to "come together, as one, in prayer and ask God to bless our school to pass the MSA."



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[gallowsCalibrator]

inb4 disparaging remarks about how the students are probably so terrible that they need to pray in order to have some semblance of hope to pass.

[mlassoff]

Why do people not get this? Illegal. Period. If students want to pray, they can. Organized school prayer is a no-no.

[Calvinist]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

Why do people not get this? Illegal. Period. If students want to pray, they can. Organized school prayer is a no-no.

what religion was endorsed by Congress as a result of this?

[EinsteinsGhost]

Now only if the principal were a Muslim and asked for praying to Allah, would unparalleled hilarity ensue...

[70Ford]

You can't make a person pray. But if you wanna pray, go for it. If it don't hurt me, I could give a damn. They used to pray at my high school football games.

Some kids are probably praying they will pass. LOL!

[twinArmageddons]

Originally Posted by Calvinist

what religion was endorsed by Congress as a result of this?

Public school=government owned.

Prayer in a government owned school, no matter what the religion=establishing a religious belief.

What this principal did was wrong.

The only place religion belongs in public school is a religious studies elective, or touched upon in a world history class.

Bottom line is, public school? No forced prayer. Period. It's wrong, no matter what the religion.

[Greatday]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

Why do people not get this? Illegal. Period. If students want to pray, they can. Organized school prayer is a no-no.

Read the article: it was completely VOLUNTARY

[Casper in Dallas]

Originally Posted by Calvinist

what religion was endorsed by Congress as a result of this?

Not by Congress, but by the State. Christianity, probably some form of Protestant Christianity. It is fine for students to pray on their own but the public school organizing it and conducting it is not legal, Period.
Casper

[Greatday]

Originally Posted by Phantasy Tokoro

No forced prayer. Period. It's wrong, no matter what the religion.

It was NOT forced.

It was VOLUNTARY.

Read the article