Educators in Public Schools Learning How to Express Their Faith With New Boldness – The Christian Educators Association International is an organization that sees the nation’s public schools as “the largest single mission field in America,” reports the Washington Post. The association trains teachers how to be a light in schools without infringing on the Constitution’s ban on promoting any particular religion. Teachers can pray with colleagues during breaks, they can pray with a student at the student’s request after work hours, and they can also hold before and after school religious clubs for students. Charles C. Haynes, a First Amendment expert…says the association is not violating the law. “The First Amendment does not exclude religion from public schools,” he said. “It gives us the ground rules for how religion comes into public schools.” The Constitution says that government cannot establish religion, but it also says that the government cannot inhibit religious freedom. Therefore it gives room for students and even teachers to express their faith in school.[i] (An aside from me, this sounds good, but would mean that Muslims, Scientologists and even Cult type religions have the same right. We certainly live in a different world than 50 years ago. So we as parents and church families have a great responsibility to “… bring them (our children) up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4)
[i] Educators in Public Schools Learning How to Express Their Faith With New Boldness, CBN, March 14, 2016
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