Why do you think organized prayer should be or shouldn be held in public school?
The establishment clause of the first amendment, upon which the legal argument for the notion of “separation of church and state” rests, dictates that organized prayer in public schools violates the Constitution. The establishment clause accompanies the free exercise clause, which gives individual students the right to pray if they like, but ORGANIZED prayer in a public school would constitute a state-sanctioned established religion and thereby violate the first amendment.
You only need ONE reason: Religion doesn’t belong in public schools–PERIOD. In a public school system built on diversity and culture, it would be a CLEAR violation of the laws governing the separation of church and state. And to impose structured Christianity-organized prayer rituals in the here and now would insult those whom are of other faiths or other cultural beliefs.
