Florida trying to legislate school prayer

[redrumloa]

If you practice discretely then you are fine. If you wanna be "in your face" about praying then you are stepping on the rights of other students.

As the only Whyzzat member who has put children through the South Florida school system for the last couple decades, I can say this is hogwash. Any display of (Christian) religion, even discretely, will get you in deep shit. Students can get suspended for wearing a cross on a necklass.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

As the only Whyzzat member who has put children through the South Florida school system for the last couple decades, I can say this is hogwash. Any display of (Christian) religion, even discretely, will get you in deep shit. Students can get suspended for wearing a cross on a necklass.

Being a person who has had kids in school does not change the law or mean that you know what the law says. Then again, many teachers and administrators are a little addled when it comes to the law as well.

You may say that, in your experience, this hasn't been the way the law has been applied in practice but that is very different from saying that it's against the law to pray in school.

Furthermore, I find that prayer in school is an issue filled with mythology and, like the Bermuda triangle, the "reality" of anti-Christianism melts away if you examine it on a case by case basis.

One of the rather pernicious things that Christianity seems to have adopted from Judaism is an almost pathological need to feel persecuted since it is by persecution that they measure their righteousness. In both realms there is a tendency to exaggerate or invent threats to puff up their self righteousness - take the "War on Christmas" as an example.

 

[redrumloa]

Being a person who has had kids in school does not change the law or mean that you know what the law says. Then again, many teachers and administrators are a little addled when it comes to the law as well.

You may say that, in your experience, this hasn't been the way the law has been applied in practice but that is very different from saying that it's against the law to pray in school.

Furthermore, I find that prayer in school is an issue filled with mythology and, like the Bermuda triangle, the "reality" of anti-Christianism melts away if you examine it on a case by case basis.

One of the rather pernicious things that Christianity seems to have adopted from Judaism is an almost pathological need to feel persecuted since it is by persecution that they measure their righteousness. In both realms there is a tendency to exaggerate or invent threats to puff up their self righteousness - take the "War on Christmas" as an example.

Not my battle to fight, just exlaining what we have seen over the years in multiple schools throughout multiple school districts.