NHD Summary

Felicia Green 12/13/07
Social Studies 3&4
Topic Essay

I am doing my NHD project on religion and prayer in school. I choose this topic because it’s very near and dear to my heart. With religion and prayer in school there are a lot of different people involved in this big problem that were are having in the world. With every case there is different date and there are different people and all types of point of views. Each case is very different because you don’t really know what the problem was or why they are taken that person to court until you read the case. At the end of NHD I hope to come out with a better understand of why the government feels so strong about separation of “church and state.” The big question I have is: Why do the government want you to keep religion out of school when the world was founded on Christianity and you have religion all in the text books that you teach the students.
I feel that religion and prayer related to conflict and compromise. For many years people have been fighting over this topic because they feel, as thought that you should teach religion in school but on the other hand people feel like you should keep religion out of school completely. The conflict of my topic is that people get into fights when you talk about religion. They also then have a problem with the government when they bring religion into school because so they say its unconstitutional to talk or teach religion in school. The compromise is that you are allowed to express your religious believes in school but only during non-instructional time. For example like during lunch, recess, after school and before school. You are also allowed to have religious groups in school but there are limits to that.
To conclude this essay while doing this project I really hope to feel a lot better about what happened to me in the third grade. It also want educate people about there rights and the rules about religious expression in public schools. I believe that kids will really learn from my project that you can find ways to teach religion in school with out having problems.