Prayer in school Prayer in school is a controversial issue these days, and it is held dearly in the hearts of many people in America. Prayer has been in public schools from the colonial times until 1962. Supporters, of prayer in school, view that starting the day off with a prayer will not harm society. Some people see it as a "way of allowing the students to clear their minds." (Mireless 28) It gives students a peaceful …showed first 75 words of 893 total…

…showed last 75 words of 893 total…meditate, contemplate or study. This kind of "prayer" helps students focus, alleviates stress, attunes them to their own creativity and empowers them. A book on natural prayer states "We have forgotten that we are all in this together, and we keep separating ourselves, by color, by football teams, by age, and so on and on. We need something to pull us all together. Natural prayer could be that miracle. It includes everyone, even non-believers." (Cornish 55)