need advice re praying in school

Originally Posted by Danzig188

i did some research last night, as i wanted to make sure of what was what before i mentioned anything. the court over the last forty years has consistently ruled against any kind of prayer at school functions with the sole exception of commencement. not at games, not at schools, not even student-led.
there are different groups that meet at school, and of course religious groups are among those..but that's voluntary as to whether you want to participate, so there's no finding of it being unconstitutional solely due to religion being at a public school. but they've ruled over and over that any prayer held school wide is 'coerced' for lack of a better word from me right now...been up since 250 this am, so that's the best i can come up with.

but due to where we live, and the job i've got, then i'd imagine i'll be listening to somer on this....it's a small town, with a small town, very narrow minded bunch of people. it's funny, i like living where i live as far as my job, my husband likes his, we're happy with our lives. we just don't socialize much! we truly don't fit in here.

I hope for your kids the science classes are OK. Sometimes in these types of communities they are absolutely horrible. I will never forget when one kid we got that was home schooled from one of these areas came to our school and the parents wanted credit for Biology. We asked to see what text they used and what work she had done. The text was like a Noah's Ark coloring book explaining the Arc ta da ta da. She had of course had colored and filled in the blanks in rote... We were absolutley horrified. NOthing about cells, nothing about basic ideas of what science is and is not, nothing about fossils and life from the past, no basic biochemistry... Good God.