A Texas Law makes it easy for religious teachers and school administers to force kids to pray in public schools. Although this is said to be a "moment of silence" it is known that some school employees are explicit about this event being for prayer. One child was told to be quite and pray a couple years back, and this case was taken into the courts, where last year a federal district judge upheld the law.
That ruling is now being appealed, and yesterday a panel of judges from the fifth Circuit (New Orleans) heard arguments regarding the case. There has as yet not been a ruling.
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It is a Texas law being heard in the 5th Circuit Court in New Orleans.
Sorry, right, Texas law. My mistake.
It's weird. I always had a minute of silence during the morning announcements in high school, and I never even considered the possibility of using it for prayer. Usually we would hear some (non-religious) quote about trying hard, being a good citizen, etc. and then we had 'reflection time'. I always thought it was a good idea, but now I wonder if I was just completely oblivious and they were actually trying to make me pray.
Ha Ha! You said Texas!
I live in Illinois, and we just got the damned blatantlly religious pandering "Moment of Silence" thrown out, so here's hopin' the precedence works for you...