Prayer in School According to the First Amendment of the Constitution, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise there of…”(Patterson A-11). The writers of the constitution made it an important point in protecting freedom of religion. The writers then even stressed the importance of being able to be any religion that suited a person. “The First Amendment removes government from the realm of religious belief and …showed first 75 words of 1900 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1900 total…school is to educate and that children must go to school to learn and not be ridiculed. There is no room for prayer in school, but there is room for prayer in church and at home. “There is no place under the American Constitutional system for prayer, reverent Bible reading or devotional exercises of any kind in the public school. The business of the school is education not religion, the mind not the soul”(Lowry 18).