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User	Blue Monk | 2008-11-02 |
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Message	The Fellowship of Christian Athletes does get to visit the school, but that’s about the only "religious" organization allowed.

User	mae | 2008-11-02 |
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Message	Sports are considered "extra"-curricular, Blue - but then, you know that. The teams aren’t graded on their performance - or at least, not formally on their school transcripts. They are, for sure, "graded" by their peers. mae

User	Blue Monk | 2008-10-31 |
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Message	Is the football team "in class" when they do a group prayer before a game?

User	mae | 2008-10-31 |
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Message	Well, Chell, I really haven’t heard of many student-led prayer groups in session during class. I think that’s a problem only in your mind. I doubt that many others reading these posts thought that that is what I meant. mae

User	Chell | 2008-10-30 |
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Message	If students aren’t "on the clock’ during recess then they should be able to leave school grounds during recess. I’ll let my oldest know that you say he is able to do whatever he wants during recess because he’s off the clock...

User	Ronswords | 2008-10-29 |
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Message	Chell So you believe when kids are in school they are on the clock huh? How about recess what if the kids got together during recess for a prayer group on their own Then nobody could stop them from having a prayer group And the same thing goes for if a person is working during their break they can pray all they want to and noone can stop them That is their time in fact if a business was trying to fire someone for praying during their break time then that person would have one hell of a class action lawsuit that would then involve everyone who was ILLEGALLY discriminated against God Bless Ron

User	Chell | 2008-10-29 |
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Message	I think school should be a training ground for the real world. And in the real world if I went to my boss and told him that not letting me pray while at work was infringing on my religious freedoms I’d be laughed at right before I was replaced by someone who could focus on the task at hand... I think, and I could be wrong, that employers would be put off by an employee-led prayer group practicing their religious freedoms while on the clock. When kids are in school they are on the clock.

User	Blue Monk | 2008-10-26 |
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Message	You can’t identify your beliefs as facts - Porcelaine Actually, there’s quite a bit being taught in schools that has little to do with "facts". What needs teaching is what is going to be useful as the student encounters the world at large. This is what to a large extent is currently missing. That said, a great many so-called "religions" have been hijacked by various demons from hell and their version of "truth" certainly has no place in a public school setting.

User	mae | 2008-10-25 |
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Message	Schools are also there to teach critical thinking and conclusion-making. This sometimes involves religion. "Facts" are not always required in school. The question is not about religion in schools, but prayer. And the answer is simple: unless a school can provide prayer or freedom from prayer for every student in his/her own religion or lack of it, then mandatory, administration-led prayer in schools is stepping on someone’s religious freedom and should not be part of school. Private prayer or student-led prayer groups are different. To outlaw that or those (how could you effectively outlaw personal private prayer, anyway?) would be infringing on EVERYONE’S religious freedom. mae

User	Porcelaine | 2008-10-22 |
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Message	Schools are for knowledge, churches are for prayers. You can’t identify your beliefs as facts and therefore your beliefs have no place in school. Go to church and pray, it’s why it’s there.

User	MINTPATTY | 2008-09-24 |
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Message	didn’t mean to post that twice haha

User	MINTPATTY | 2008-09-24 |
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Message	i agree with you ron. If a child or teacher wants to pray in school then let the mutha fukas mutha fukin pray if they don’t want to don’t try to force them. faith is about choice and free will. a to da mutha fukin men

User	MINTPATTY | 2008-09-24 |
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Message	i agree with you ron. If a child or teacher wants to pray in school then let the mutha fukas mutha fukin pray if they don’t want to don’t try to force them. faith is about choice and free will. a to da mutha fukin men

User	Blue Monk | 2008-09-23 |
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Message	Teach the kids how to make money!

User	joeyalphabet | 2008-09-21 |
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Message	Can we F****** just teach kids to read, write, and do math? I’d be happy with THAT.

User	Outlaw | 2008-09-20 |
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Message	A little selfish there, are we not Blue?

User	Blue Monk | 2008-09-20 |
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Message	spirituality held as sacred - Chell ... as long as it’s MINE!

User	BusterLILblock | 2008-09-10 |
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Message	agreeing with cabb, they takr it 2 the exrtemes and say we do really weird things

User	Chell | 2008-09-10 |
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Message	I know- I was being a bit dramatic. Wicca don’t actually lay salt circles every time they pray either. And holy rollers don’t roll all the time either. The point I want to make is that I would like to see spirituality held as sacred and personal and education kept as public and mundane.

User	cabbalistic | 2008-09-10 |
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Message	"..their beliefs right alongside the Muslim children who lay out their prayer rugs facing Mecca and kiss the ground during school." We don’t actually kiss the ground during prayer. :P