What role does religion play in schools?
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supposedly no role if you are referring to the public schools.\n\nWhat is the actual subject of your paper.\n\nSchools have played a big part in Removing Religion... or at least those people who complain that their children shouldn't be exposed to even the mention of God.\n\nI wonder what they are using for currency these days.
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See above. The line between school-sponsored prayer and school-allowed prayer is analyzed under two prongs: entanglement and coercion.\n\nFirst, is the school too entangled (too involved) in the prayer process. Do they set aside special rooms for prayer, or do they choose to grant special privileges to those who want to pray (privileges that other students cannot get for non-prayer reasons). For example: if students are allowed to set up a booth or hand out pamphlets on religion, but are not allowed to set up a booth or hand out pamphlets on other social issues, then the school is favoring religion over other areas and that constitutes entanglement. \n\nBut the reverse also applies. If the school allows student groups to set up booths and hand out pamphlets on other social issues, the school cannot single out religion and prevent expression of those religious viewpoints. Basically, religion cannot be either unduly favored or unduly restricted, relative to other types of expression.\n\nThe second prong is whether the prayer situation could be considered coercive. Or put another way, is someone forced to participate who doesn't choose to? A student-led prayer at a school sporting event might be considered coercive if all team members and cheerleaders must be present (on the field) before the prayer starts. However, allowing people to gather privately to pray, and then having everyone meet on the field is fine. The first creates an implicitly coercive atmosphere, since the school is requiring people to be present for the prayer whether they want to be or not. The second situation is not coercive, since people can pray or not as they wish, or do anything else they wish, prior to showing up at the appointed time.
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Hmm... I don't really think there is a war against Christians in public school. The christians in my school were allowed to pray and they even have an afternoon school prayer group. \n\nMost people think that the government made prayer in schools illegal but in reality you can still pray in schools. They just didn't make it mandatory for people to pray in school which is good because in public school there are a variety of people with a variety of religions and that should be respected.
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People follow precendence instead of principal because it helps them absolve themselves of any moral guilt they may feel if they followed principal, same with humanism. Religions help tell people what to do and how to think, they take the responsiblity out of ones actions.
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If they teach in a religious institution, then yes.  If they teach in a public institution, no.  If they teach in a private school, then they should act in accordance with the school policy.\n\nI have a very simple rule for answering these questions.  I substitute Satanism in for religion and see how I respond since that is also a religion.  Do I want a teacher in a public school talking about his or her devil worship?  No.  Therefore, no to all religious talk in public schools.
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Religion plays a part in the choices you make in voting, just as every other part of who you are plays a part in every decision you make about anything.\n\nEverything we learn, experience, and believe in molds our decision making.
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This question doesn't make any sense.\n\nFreedom of religion has nothing to do with what we teach in schools in a science class.  Freedom of religion applies to people's personal beliefs, and their ability to worship according to those beliefs.\n\nThis has nothing to do with the subject matter taught in physics or math or biology classes.\n\nEvolution is taught in biology classes because it is the best description of how life changes, and it has 150 years worth of research to back it up.\n\nspiderlover128's claim that "there is little to no real evidence to support evolution" is nonsense.  Genetics, paleontology, biogeography, anatomy -- all solidly support evolution.
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Yeah we learn Religion in my Middle School not some crap.
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No.\n\nThe reason we have Freedom of Worship in this country is because the government is prohibited from endorsing any single religion.  That's called the separation of church and state.  As such, the government cannot pay for a faith-based school.\n\nAlso, people who attend private school CHOOSE to attend.  No one is force to pay private tuition fees.  So if a person chooses to go to private school, why should the taxpayers foot the bill?
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This question belongs in "Religion," not teaching.  Teaching refers to the education profession and related issues, not you "teaching" people about your religion.
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religion doesn't belong in school
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I am sure you don't want a real answer to this question but one that simply reinforces your own views. However, the purpose of our schools is not to glorify Christ or any other religion. Religion is a personal matter to be taught in the home.
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Religion is very important to many people.  To some, it plays less of a role in their lives.  But for others, it is the central and most important factor in their lives.  So it is obviously important.\n\nIt is important to give people a workable vision of the world.  It gives them a way to view the world and to find their place within it.  It gives them a way to strengthen their own character traits, and to overcome bad traits.  (By things like prayer, meditation, contemplation of scriptures, and knowledge of lives of saints, etc.) \n\nReligion gives people a purpose and a way to strive for that purpose.\n\nReligion influences how people view themselves, other people, and the whole world in general.  It plays a role in how they will vote in elections, how they will raise their children, and even sometimes what career they will choose.\n\nReligion also can serve to give one a sense of belonging to a community.  It helps to give a society a common goal to strive for, which can be reached better as a group than as an individual.\n\nReligion shapes you in ways you are probably totally unaware of.  Even when for generations, people have stopped being religious, they still retain the influence that religion has had on their lives, even if they are not aware of it.  Whether someone is an individualist or a communalist very often derives from religion.  Whether you think of time as eternal, circular, or very short and coming to an end.......all that is from the influence of religion.
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One of the reasons I enjoy the world today is because there are so many diverse relgions. Catholics can live in mainly Hindu lands, Buddhists can live in a Jewish society, etc. Religions are normally widely accepted.\nI am against all schools being relgious, and me coming from a Catholic-based school. Because of this religious diversity, not everyone is the same religion. Where I go to school, there are many religions, from Presbytarians to Catholics to Egyptian Orthodox, to Jews. The only reason why these diverse groups go to a united school is because it is the only private high school in the county, the only one with a good reputation in academics and extra-curricular activities.\nBasing all schools off of religion would force either more schools to open (Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, Presbytarian, Egyptian, etc. etc. etc.), or narrowing the selection.\nPublic schools set the religion aside, sometimes easing an awkwardness that a child might find, being a different religion during a school service.\n\nPerhaps I was going to say more, but I lost my train of thought :)
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It is ok to study world religions in school; in fact most western civ classes focus on this; however any class that places one religion over another in regards to importance and or premise is in violation.
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Many schools have ties to various churches, some more than others.  You would have to find schools that interest you, see that they have the programs you want, and check their religious affiliation, if they have one.
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Absolutely not. \n\nLet me put it this way. Who's religious belief is right? \n\nIf you can answer that question, then we can have prayer in schools. If not, then you can begin to figure out why there is no prayer in school. \n\nSee, if the state begins to determine what prayers can be prayed in public school, then the state makes an endorsement of a particular religion. From there, the state gets more involved in the politics of religion. \n\nNow, the last thing you want is the government telling you how you should or shouldn't pray, right? \n\nLet me go a step further. Let's say we go with the fact that 90% of Americans believe in God. So, you say "Hey, we can just pray to a generic god. Then nobody's discriminated against." (Except the 10%, of course.)\n\nExcept, praying to a generic god is a sin. You pray to the one true god, otherwise, you're really ticking god off. Besides, Christians are pretty fond of Jesus and would get really ticked at keeping him out of prayers, don't you think?\n\nSo, we have to make a choice. Who's religion is the right one? Well, Christians outnumber everybody else by a wide margin in the US, guess we'll make Christiantiy the de facto religion of the US. (85% of believers are Christians of some form or another in the US. So we take 85% of the 90%)\n\nExcept, which version of Christianity is the right one? Do we have Catholic mass? Do we have have Baptismal hymnals? What about those who refuse to engage in the prayer? Will there be repercussions? (You bet there will be by those who do pray versus those who don't.)\n\nOK. You might say I'm complicating the problem, but I'm not. Essentially, we have a separation of church and state to avoid internal conflict in the country over who's religious belief is the correct one. We also, don't want a government telling us who to worship and how to worship. (Living in a religion dominated society is called, theocracy. See the Middle East for what our lives would be like if we had a church dominated government.)\n\nKeeping prayer out of schools and government allows us to live in a country where we have religious freedom. The freedom to worship as we choose of our own free will.\n\nIn other words nobody is penalized for not being of the "correct" faith. Everybody has the freedom to worship without government oversight and being bullied by social pressures. Nobody is at risk of the majority telling them how to live. \n\nAmerica is about freedom. Freedom from government endorsed religion is a good thing.\n\nHope that makes sense.