If someone wants to utter a silent prayer to themselves, whats the harm. There is no reason to have a specific "prayer time" in public, state funded schools because then you are singling out Christianity and giving it a place of privilege.

I agree.if a Muslim or anyone wants to pray go to the bathroom.Great acoustics and no one gives a crap.

Well thats just the point. Are you gonna sit there and tell the Muslim kids or the Jewish kids or the Wiccan kids or the Hindu kids sorry, make way for the big JC. Thats a load of crap.

I would agree if we only had to religions in this country, but just wait, Muslims will not be the last to demand time as the christians have. What is the problem with dealing with your faith before school and not in school? Can anyone see a problem with this, it would solve the whole problem.

Thats what I just said, you cant allow one group to pray and not another. Not in any other rooms. Nowhere. Because you cant have observe form of prayer to the exclusion of all others. It becomes unrealistic to allow for ALL form of religious expression. If thats what you meant, then I apologize.

The staff is usually praying no one kills anybody.

And when schools deny students the right to pray before eating lunch? Or to pray before or after school, on school property?

Both of these things have been attempted, and are examples of government trying to restrict the free exercise of religion.

People can pray quietly in their head before they eat.

I hear Christians say they pray to themselves all the time and if you do that, no one knows and there is no problem. Anyone of any faith should be able to do that and not just Christians. If you dont allow one group to pray, you cant allow another. However you can pray as loud or as much as you want on your own time or in church or where ever else.

It doesnt seem like an absurd demand to place on anyone.

The only problem with recognizing the spirituality of all students is there probably would not be enough time or resources to give each an equal form of expression. Some would argue that since Christianity is the dominant religion in the US, then it should just be Christian prayer but that is not right. Not with students of other faiths and not when the bills for the schools are paid for in part by the parents of those students of diverse faiths.

I know there is a tiny minority of Christians who want to have officially sanctioned prayer is school, but the vast majority of conservatives just want the school to leave little Johnny alone when he says a prayer before lunch. And if little Barrack wants to say a little prayer to Allah before lunch that is okay to.

One of the minor little details that many people do not seem to understand is that a central part of conservative philosophy is that the government should not endorse any one religion or attack any one religion.

Conservatives do not want the government mandating religion in schools or elsewhere. Of course I am aware that not everyone on the right is a true conservative. In fact I am not 100% in agreement with the conservative philosophy, but that is a discussion for another day.

Little Barrack and Allah? Dang you just couldn't help youself huh?

Pray before school, it's that simple, why does any faith have to have their faith up front of at all. Again it's a public school correct? What is prayer doing in public school. Can anyone answer that for me?