In California, some public schools are designating some rooms as prayer rooms for Muslims

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The Muslim prayer in question can be skipped.

Says who?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Can't have it both ways, if Muslims get a space then Christians, Buddhist, etc get the same

Not rocket science

Why can't they use the same space?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Sounds pretty cultish to me.

That is only due to your ignorance.

 

[jknowgood]

Says who? As long as their are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

The only restriction on prayer is that it cannot be led by a faculty member.

Anything that has Christianity labeled to it isn't allowed in public schools.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Anything that has Christianity labeled to it isn't allowed in public schools.

Wrong again! Where did you get this idea?

 

[DrLove]

Equal consideration to all claims for room time for any legal purpose is essential; this is fair.

No outside speakers .. no preachers. If a spare classroom is not available, very few schools don’t have a cafeteria or a gym.

 

[DrLove]

But there is the lie. It is being done to accommodate Muslims. A specific faith.

But if you allow half an hour per day for all.faiths, that would be reasonable no?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

This is from the San Francisco affiliate of PBS. It says that some public schools in California are setting up prayer rooms for Muslims.

I'm no constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that this is clear a violation of the first amendment.


California Schools Prepare for Thousands of Afghan Refugee Students | KQED

California Schools Prepare for Thousands of Afghan Refugee Students

By Diana Lambert

September 21, 2021

In California, home to the largest number of Afghan refugees in the country, school officials are preparing for an influx of students who fled Afghanistan with their families after the Taliban seized power in the country last month.

Schools are especially busy in Sacramento and Fremont, which have two of the largest Afghan communities in the state. Over 40% of the nation’s Afghan refugees have resettled in the Sacramento region in recent years, according to Jessie Tientcheu, chief executive officer of Opening Doors, a resettlement agency based in Sacramento.

Elk Grove Unified School District began offering culturally appropriate meals and setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays in preparation for the additional Afghan students it expects in the next month. San Juan Unified is offering Saturday school for English learners, and Fremont Unified is planning to hire more translators.

So, prayer in school is illegal unless you're Muslim? Then it is okay?

Jeez.

20 years ago I said this would happen. Here it is.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

What is it that Christians would like?

I wasn’t aware that you guys needed a prayer room.

I am not a Christian, but I know for a fact that Christians have been the target of others, even when they go off to pray in private. They get sued all the time for trying to pray.

Either we're not going to have ANY prayer in school or there will be an equal opportunity.

 

[jknowgood]

Wrong again! Where did you get this idea?

Been watching the news for over 20 years and Christianity has been attacked in our schools for all this time. I remember a story how a Christian club was done away with.

 

[colfax_m]

I am not a Christian, but I know for a fact that Christians have been the target of others, even when they go off to pray in private. They get sued all the time for trying to pray.

Either we're not going to have ANY prayer in school or there will be an equal opportunity.

Uh huh. Sure.

 

[colfax_m]

No, just the right to pray.

Students already have it.

 

[colfax_m]

I remember a story how a Christian club was done away with.

Post the story.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Been watching the news for over 20 years and Christianity has been attacked in our schools for all this time. I remember a story how a Christian club was done away with.

Guess what? The media did not cover the resulting court case that found the school could not do away with the club. Do the research and I will bet you a horse turd to a doughnut and let you hold the stakes in your mouth. I was a school administrator and I am very familiar with the rules.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Muslims pray at set times, facing Mecca and they pray "Shoulder to shoulder".

Then they need to reform to assimilate. They need to find the workaround. Maybe prayer credits or something. It's their problem, nobody else's.

 

[jknowgood]

Post the story.

Google 3 students try to start a Bible club.

 

[colfax_m]

Google 3 students try to start a Bible club.

I got a couple of pages on tips for starting a school Bible club. Nothing on anyone being prevented from doing so.

Did you get something different when you googled it?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Google 3 students try to start a Bible club.

It proves that not allowing a Bible Club is against the law.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

But if you allow half an hour per day for all.faiths, that would be reasonable no?

I would say no. School is school. Church is church. Pray in your head. If your grades suffer because you are praying instead of paying attention, that's your problem. Unless i get to take a half hour out of your religious services to make your children learn algebra. That sounds just as silly to me as having prayer time in school.

 

[MinTrut]

Says who?

The religion - Islam.