Prayer in Public Schools
... However this is the status quo of the public education system, which we send our children to daily. ... Is the public school system interfering with our student’s ability to learn? While some community schools are in good shape, many are in very poor condition, providing a meager attempt at educating students, and many at an unfair advantage. ... The tuition rates were simply out of reach for many households, even middle class Americans, thus, leaving the student to continue as a student in the public school system, allowing only the wealthiest to receive the higher standards in education. The public education system receives a certain amount of money per student enrolled within their system. ... Parents could then use the vouchers towards the cost of tuition at private schools…” (ADL, 9/15/03). ... How does the voucher system improve the quality of the schools? According to a poll, 67% believe that school systems improve as a result of vouchers (Public Survey 5/99). ... Like any business, schools become competitive. Schools that are lower in educational achievement work harder to increase, to maintain their population, oppose to loosing students to ‘better’ schools. Choice is not about giving up on the government schools or the many fine individuals working within them; there is no reason that government schools could not flourish under choice. Indeed, by providing autonomy--the key to success in almost any human endeavor--as well as an unequivocal mandate to please customers, choice could be the best thing that ever happened to the good teachers and principals in government schools (Lieberman 65). ... If a parent feels their student should be in a religious environment, daily prayer, chapel services, worship/religious oriented times, etc.