Should Prayer be banned in public school's ??

Never! Prayer is what connects us to the goodness of this world and its people, is what makes children think of something greater than mommy or daddy, since evolution is a theory, is not proven that WE descended from the monkeys, we have all been created ,everything that is and was and will be has all been created ,is been here we just accomodate these things for our use and we are so conceited that we dare to deny prayers ,good words, good thoughts ,to our very in danger children and we have seen the consequences , I say let them say PRAYERS for all of us, what harm can this do? I have had personal experiences with answered prayers, and Iam sure other people also ,then let us THINK even the most primitive tribes still found in the Amazon , New guinea, believe in a supreme Being ,creator of this world!, who are we modern bolonies to question WHAT has worked for us for thousands of years?

I don't think that prayer should be banned as in children not being allowed to pray during school hours. If children have to pray for personal religious reasons, or if they want to pray, they should be allowed to do so. I don't think that children should be led by teachers in prayer every morning, however, because the prayer (at least in the US) will certainly be a Christian one, and not everyone in a school in Christian! It also violates, the separation between church and state in public schools if children must participate in a certain prayer, because whatever religion that prayer is adopted from becomes, in practice, the "official" religion of the school.

Prayer isn't banned in schools. If a kid wants to sit and silently pray (the way Jesus said to in Matthew) that kid is free to do so. It is the sanctioning of prayer (religion) by the school that is prohibited.

There is a big difference that those who would prefer to ram religion down the throats of kids just ignores.

It was fifty years ago, wise guy. It seems that you fell asleep when Eisenhower was president.

Some atheist made it. As a consequence, today the USA is the only country on the planet where students go to school with shot guns and kill all the people they can before commiting suicide.

Many other things have happened since, none of them good, like increase in drugs use, loss of moral, loss of values, and many other things that I don't remember now, but things go from bad to worse

Prayer organized by the school should be, but individuals deciding to pray, especially before math tests? Sorry, but that's a First Amendment right.

Organized and memorized prayer takes the reverence away, it then becomes rote. While people do learn from rote and memorization, what standardized things do you think children should pray for? Also, Jesus teaches us that when we pray we should go into a closet, so that ourprayer is between us and God, not a public display of piety.

Yes. The freedom of religion in this country includes the right to be of any religion you like, or no religion at all. The "moment of silence" or "moment of silent meditation" gives students the right to express their faith privately, or stare at the wall, or whatever they like, but to enforce prayer in a public school is unfair to those who choose a different form of worship.

As long as there are tests in school, there WILL BE Prayer in schools.

I think that students who wish to pray should be given time - a silent meditation moment during home room doesn't hurt anyone, no matter what beliefs you have.

They can ban formal open public prayer, but any individual can pray at any time, silently, and it can't be stopped by any government.

should public schools be banned for banning prayer?

Public schools and the lawmakers and administrators who run them should focus on education as opposed to mandating or prohibiting prayer.