It just does not make sense to me. Why does this student not go to private Christian school? My parents wanted to ensure that we could pray ALL DAY LONG if we so chose and sent us to Catholic School for my entire life. What is wrong with these parents?????? I can’t imagine forcing a public school to say a prayer.....of course I have never been in a public school so I don’t know anything about them but it just seems strange that the parents didn’t send the kids to private school.
Private schools are expensive and not every parent can afford them. Are you saying kids can’t pray in public schools?
Although the Constitution forbids public school officials from directing or favoring prayer, students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 506 (1969). In addition, the Supreme Court has made clear that “private religious speech, far from being a First Amendment orphan, is as fully protected under the Free Speech Clause as secular private expression.” Capitol Square Review & Advisory Bd. v. Pinette, 515 U.S. 753, 760 (1995). Moreover, not all religious speech that takes place in the public schools or at school-sponsored events is governmental speech. Santa Fe, 530 U.S. at 302. For example, “nothing in the Constitution ... prohibits any public school student from voluntarily praying at any time before, during, or after the school day,” and students may pray with fellow students during the school day on the same terms and conditions that they may engage in other conversation or speech. Santa Fe, 530 U.S. at 313.
http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/prayer-in-public-school.htm