Misunderstood The Role Of Religion In Public Schools

The United States has one of the strongest public educations in the world. However, they have overlooked one of the most important subjects that lays behind backgrounds and roots of almost every important history subject taught in schools. It is the study of different religions that has intentionally been discontinued from America’s public schools (Ayers and Reid, 2005). America has misunderstood the role that religion can take in public schools and has looked beyond religion and race, to avoid discussions in class that often lead into topics of racisms and prejudice (Prat, 1998). The reason for this, those educated in America know little or nothing about religion and so they only judge on what they know about Judeo-Christianity, which is characterized by the majority of Americans (Arra Willox, 2009). But today, the reason to

It wasn’t until the 1800’s that people were able to speak their minds and defend each other’s religions. Having designed to promote protestants ways of thinking made the supreme court feel obligated to apply an establishment prohibiting schools from celebrating particular religions, or promoting religion over different systematic believes. This is when schools stopped praying, stopped holidays celebrations and overtime religion over all was taken to the extreme and religion in school was completely discontinued (Marty, 2000). Even though school religion was discontinued, churches continued to offer religious education. Many parents send their children to church schools to learn about their own religions. Parents who preferred teaching sought out non government schools. This came to show that parents still wanted their kids to learn about religion in school but they looked for schools that had their own particular beliefs (jeynes 1998). How can we determine now if religion can be essential to students or should it be left