Religion in Public Schools

I don’t see how or why we are still debating this issue here in 2010 but I suppose there will always be people who feel that their job is to push their beliefs on others. I can understand wanting to have your child be in an environment which is based off and teaches a certain religion, but public school is not that place. My father was raised Catholic and his parents sent him to Catholic school. That’s what you do if you want religion in all parts of your child’s life. And I can understand if your family simply doesn’t have the money to send their child to a school that is of their religious practice but there are religious based home school courses. And as for things like the Pledge that have the association of God in it is something people shouldn’t HAVE to do. I don’t think they should take it out of schools but as long as the association of religion in it I don’t think that it should be forced.

If there is going to be any religion in schools it should be the teaching of Religions of the world, and what each religion practices so that the ignorance of religion of other countries can be sorted out.