1. To Pray Or Not
... prayer (Both 418). That is sixty-three percent of the students surveyed (418). Even in the New York public school district in which the prosecutor's children attended only twenty-nine of the four thousand five hundred students asked to be excused from the prayer (Haas 39). Most people in America favor voluntary school prayer ... it," argued William Vitale, Jr. (Haas 30). No child was ever forced to say the prayer. The school board set up mechanics so no one would be compelled to say it. Those students who wanted to use their right to free speech could say the prayer and those who felt the...
- Word Count: 1973
- Approx Pages: 8
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- Grade Level: High School