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A 9 page paper which examines how religion should remain a private matter and has no place in public education. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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always felt passionately about. Prayer had been historically been incorporated into the public school curriculum from colonial times until 1962, when the Supreme Court ruled it was in violation
of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Since then, anything remotely resembling prayer, including moments of silence, has been prohibited. This intentional exclusion is based upon the
notion that the purpose of public schools is to education, not to proselytize. Schools are public and religion is a private matter; therefore, it is appropriate that the two
should not mix. People who wanted the freedom to worship as they so chose comprised some of the earliest American colonial settlements.
In Roger Williams Rhode Island settlement, there is already a sense that religion was something that should remain private in his comparison to the church and the world
to a wilderness (Durso 79). According to Williams, "The integrity of the garden (the church) was best preserved by erecting a wall to keep out the... influences of the
wilderness" (Durso 79). When establishing a government for the fledgling nation in the late eighteenth century, Americas founding fathers were extremely conscious of the inevitable conflict between religion and
the state. For that reason, they endeavored to keep the two as separate as possible. In fact, the framers of the Constitution were the first separationists, because they
regarded public schools to be secular institutions where religion has no place (Durso 79). The separationists, then and now, contend that religion in public schools is tantamount to the
governments involvement in "the religious lives of its people" since providing citizens with public education is one of its most important responsibilities (Durso 79). For this reason, when the
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