Should the ten comandments be posted in classrooms in all public elementary and secondary schools?
No. Public schools (as with other public institutions) are meant to be secular, separate from religion. This doesn’t mean, of course, that people aren’t allowed to practice whatever religions that they practice in public places. What it DOES mean, though, is that the government and its institutions are not supposed to show “favoritism”, so to speak, for any one religion or imply that practicing or believing any one religion is a better lifestyle than another religion or no religion at all. This includes public schools. While some of the ten commandments are pretty universal and unspoken “rules” that would likely be agreed upon by most people, regardless of religion (you shouldn’t murder, kill, commit adultery, you should honor your mother and father, etc), the problem is that it is NOT a secular document. The ten commandments says that the god Christians believe in is THE God and that those who abide by the commandments should hold this god before any other. Realistically speaking, thi
