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HutchGarahl -> RE: prayer in schools (4/25/2007 10:30:57 PM)
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I never agreed with pulling prayer out of schools. I believe if a kid wants to pray, they have that right. The principle of the school here tried to get my son kicked out of school when we first moved here when she caught him saying grace at lunch. He was quiet about it, and continued, finished his lunch. After school, he went to the school board and logged a complain against the teacher. School board didn't like it, so he ended up taking the entire board to court because he felt he was in his right.
My son won his case in court. The next day before school started, he stood out on the front lawn of the school by a huge rock and started praying. Everyone in town had heard about his court case. What suprised everyone was, as he stood there praying...hundreds of other kids joined him. And they continued this every day and here it is almost 10 years later....there are about 5 different areas at the school kids convine before school, each area having different religions..all kids praying. The majority of the kids now pray at lunch as well. One unexpected thing....the violence in the school dropped by about 20 percent since then. Yea, we still have the occassional trouble maker, but nowhere near as bad as before.
If there was ever a vote to bring prayer back...i'd be first in line.
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