Knowledge Over Prayer In Schools

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Knowledge over Prayer We live in a world full of beliefs, ideas, and religions that come from all over the world. While most of these are practice in one’s home or place of worship there are some who try to spread their beliefs online, TV, or word of mouth. These might seem ok to you as you can simply not listen or walk away, but what about someone unintentionally trying to spread their beliefs on you or your kid at school? They mostly likely cannot walk out of the classroom and depending on how close they are to that person they might have to hear or see how that person practices their beliefs. This could upset or change the ideas of you or your child’s. This is why prayer and other religious practices are causing an uproar in schools. …show more content…
Scheempp is other case that deals with religion and prayer. Every morning ten bible verses from the bible would be read over the PA system along with the Lord’s Prayer and flag salute. Mr. Edward Schempp sued Abington School District. Edward believed the bible reading was violating his family’s rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The legislature of Pennsylvania amended the Bible Reading Act to provide that any child could be excused from the bible reading upon a written letter of the parents. The case then went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of Edward Schempp. The court said that the required activities violated both the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment …show more content…
Vitale and Abington School Justice Potter Stewart was the dissenting vote. In both cases Stewart, according to a statement on ww.law.cornell.edu said “I think the records in the two cases before us are so fundamentally deficient as to make impossible an informed or responsible determination of the constitutional issues presented. Specifically, I cannot agree that, on these records, we can say that the Establishment Clause has necessarily been violated. But I think there exist serious questions under both that provision and the Free Exercise Clause -- insofar as each is imbedded in the Fourteenth Amendment -- which require the remand of these cases for the taking of additional evidence”(School 3). He also goes on to say in the Schenpp case according to Britannica.com that Stewart said “the record before the court was insufficiently developed to allow it to conclude that the students were coerced into participating in the exercises in violation of the establishment clause.”(McCullough 11). While Stewart seemed to think prayer was optional and did not see any harm along as anyone was allowed to leave during prayer I do not believe he understood that prayer would make kids who should be allowed to make up their own minds on what they believe feel “forced” into doing the prayer as they would believe it was the norm and did not want to face being socially out casted by the praying
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