Reply #5: On the opposite side of the spectrum [View All]

[HockeyMom]

When my daughter was a Junior in HS five years ago, her homeroom teacher tried to start the school day with the whole class standing for a "moment of silence." The first day she did this the entire class just sat. The second day she tried to do this, 20 of 22 students got up and walked out of the classroom. My daughter and another boy were the two who stayed and sat there staring at her.

The school switchboard was swamped with angry phone calls from not only the parents of the students involved, but as word spread, they received nearly 500 phone calls in one day. As my neighbor said, "If I wanted my child to "pray" in school, I would send him to a parochial school of MY choice". That was the prevalent view of the parents.

The teacher was reprimanded and stopped. The following year she was gone from the school district.

I can only imagine what would have happened if she had actually tried to SAY a prayer. I would guess there would have been quite a few lawsuits in the works judging from the response of the parents.