It was humor, and, your points are good. On the most part, I think that where schools are currently constitutionally supposed to stand in regards to religion is good, there just needs to be progressives present on school boards across the country in order to prevent regressives from being the only people who influence where education goes in this country.

Was that meant to be sarcasm or humor? It made me laugh, so I’ll take it to be the latter.

That’s not what I meant. I meant there are bigger battles regarding our kids, such as reforming sex education, bringing back music and art programs, minimizing the ever-increasing academic stress forced on them, etc., instead of using all of our energy on things that the kids really couldn’t care less about and which don’t really affect their overall well-being one way or another. Let’s not make them pawns in our selfish efforts to prove a point (for or against prayer). Let’s use that energy to do something that would actually make a difference in their education. That’s all I was saying… I’m sorry if that sounds too idealistic. I’ve been accused of that before.

I agree that it should not be mandatory, but there are bigger battles to be fought.

I’m glad you agree with us, Linda. And, of course, there are bigger battles to be fought. There are almost always bigger battles to be fought, since there are so many cases of injustice and horror in the world, and its impossible for any one person to fight all the problems in the world at once. Unless…someone out there is a vegan ACLU member who is working to bring peace to Darfur and cure AIDS and stop climate change and save the whales and is helping overthrow the Myanmar junta and close CIA torture sites and Guantanamo and end conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq and iron out difficulties between Iran and the West and…

Standing up for the wall of separation of church and state is sometimes an abstract thing. Enforcing the exclusion of mandatory school prayer from public schools is something that regular ordinary Americans can do. Bully for those that are willing to fight the good fight!

I have two words for this post: WHO CARES?

I care because a pointless moment of silence is being inflicted on my daughter during her school day.

If they revoke that mandatory change then I won’t care at all that no moment of silence is being inflicted on my child – and if someone else gets upset about that I’ll probably think WHO CARES? just like you, Linda.