Prayer In Schools Argumentative Analysis

The world today has many issues and conflicting arguments. One of the arguments that has caught my attention is whether or not there should be prayer in school. According to Rebecca Klein, with HuffPost Education, in the year of 2014 around 61% of Americans agree with daily prayer in school. While on the other hand, 37% of Americans do not agree with having prayer in school. To me, the schools in the United States should be allowed to have prayer in school because; morals should be taught, to restore Christianity, and to give the students the opportunity to express their feelings. Since prayer was removed from schools, there has been a drastic change with society. According to David Barton, ever since prayer was removed from schools teen pregnancies have gone up 500% since 1962. The effect of the removal of prayer has not only effected that, but the number of unmarried mothers have risen dramatically. As well as the dropouts, divorce rates, and the students SAT scores have steadily declined. Christianity teaches morals, and with morals the generations today and the future generations would have more success with being taught the moral of sensitivity to failure. Christianity and prayer has a positive effect on people. Giving

I grew up going to church every Sunday and believing that prayer solves everything. To me prayer is like a speech or a song, it is a form of expression. When I was worried, scared, or upset I would pray. With prayer there is comfort and a way to express yourself positively. Prayer is powerful, and with prayer in school more children would be helped and guided down the right path. As well as giving them a positive outlook on life. On the other hand without prayer instead of children expressing their feelings through prayer, they express them through negative things. This is where the teen pregnancies come in, along with drug abuse, under-age drinking, and