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Battle on Religion in U.S Public Schools
The United States as a nation has occupants of mixed race with different religious backgrounds and beliefs. For a long period, religion in the public schools has posited fright with a lot of tension, misunderstanding, confusion, and hostility. It is argued that religions induce exclusivity when different believers tend to create their identity. Further, religious identity poses the believers to develop fundamental claims assertions which caused differences within the school (Suzanne, 1). Therefore, faith and religion are of the high stake and cannot be debated upon. It may be scanty while educators teach it to students, as others may not confine to what the law authorizes to be trained hence making it be in constant conflict in the public schools.
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The established First Amendment to the United States foundation restricts the Congress against enacting laws towards an organization of faith or prohibition of its complimentary exercise. Earlier, most public schools were indented to the culture of beginning school sessions with religious prayers and invocations, leading to numerous cases taken attracting legal notice. For instance, the case of “Engel v. Vitale in 1962, which was on the New York State Board of Regents prayer drafted to be read at the beginning of every school day in New York public schools ” (Suzanne, 6). The court lined that the prayer was an infringement of the First Amendment.

The argument was that even though the prayer was non-denominational, it favored religion over non-religion.
With consideration to the case of Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) concerning commonwealth Pennsylvanian law of reading ten bible verses on daily while beginning school session without commenting. It was regarded as unconstitutional, with the argument that it was more of religious devotion than of educational purpose. The concern of evolution curriculum was also addressed arguing that when its primary purpose and effect are secular, then it’s assumed to be permissible. For example, in the case of Epperson and Arkansas (1968) on the curriculum of evolution, it was ruled unconstitutional arguing that its primary concern and effect was towards protection of religious views, hence prohibiting the teaching of evolution in schools (Suzanne, 6).
In the recent, enactments have allowed the practice of religious practices in schools and the laws that restricted religion revised. The public schools now accommodate students with religious differences and the government supports them in funding. New programs have since developed like religious music and other schools build based on faith or denomination.
Work cited
Rosenblatt, Suzanne. “Religion in Schools in the United States: Education and Society.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (2017): pp 1-20. Online publication
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL. V. SCHEMPP ET AL. No. 142. Supreme Court of United States 17th June 1963.