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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (8957)	2/17/2003 11:55:38 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Karen, your link for the CSM doesn't work. Can you plesae paste it again? Thanks!

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (8957)	2/17/2003 12:08:17 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 25898

IMO, it's about time we bring God back to the classroom, the recently passed No Child Left Behind legislation goes into effect and includes: "First, it permits prayer in public schools by trying to clarify what is constitutionally permitted. The regulations that implement the act, citing numerous Supreme Court cases, conclude that prayer may be said in public schools under the following basis: "Nothing in the Constitution prohibits any public school student from voluntarily praying at any time before, during or after the school day, and students may pray with fellow students during the school day on the same terms and conditions that they may engage in other conversation or speech. Likewise, local school authorities possess substantial discretion to impose rules of order and pedagogical restrictions on student activities, but they may not structure or administer such rules to discriminate against student prayer or religious speech." "For instance, where schools permit student expression on the basis of genuinely neutral criteria and students retain primary control over the content of their expression, the speech of students who choose to express themselves through religious means such as prayer is not attributable to the state and therefore may not be restricted because of its religious content. Student remarks are not attributable to the state simply because they are delivered in a public setting or to a public audience." Reps pray in Congress. Presidents take the oath of office with one hand on the Bible. Amen.