When prayer is brought back into the classroom, I will get my teacher’s certificate and begin every day having my class recite the rosary. I don’t think the proponents of prayer in schools meant that the prayer would be the rosary, but that’s what you get when you don’t think it through.
I am old enough to remember prayer in public school. We began the morning with prayer. I do not believe that prayer in school was detrimental, but I had the advantage of a homogeneous neighborhood; I lived in a predominately Catholic neighborhood, where many of the teachers we saw in church on Sunday lived within the school boundaries. I am a contemporary of the children of Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Vashti McCollum. Long after the Supreme Court’s ruling on prayer in school, my high school, which had a history of anti-Catholic acts, was still teaching the King James Version of the bible, only this time in English class.
I do not believe in prayer in the public school. Those who want to see it are wrongheaded and shortsighted. They will open their children up to unexpected religious experiences. They will find that they cannot fire a teacher for their religious views and teachers will find themselves in danger of explicit and implicit disciplinary action because of their religious views.
Me, I am going to teach those dear little children the roasary.
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