Isherwood
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I suppose that they could always take a 15 minute chunk of time and set it aside as prayer/meditate/think/navel gaze time, without giving the lawyers something to sue over. But to what purpose? Why can't kids do all that at home? Why do they have to take any time away from instruction for such personal needs?
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Yes, that's true, but the purpose is to give students time to collect thoughts, pray, do homework for the class at hand, etc. Sorry, I can't quote the source, but I read some statistics the other day that students who make time each day for some silence (not necessarily religiously related silence and/or prayer, just silence) do much better in school because people don't realize how much noise dominates our days and inhibits our thought. I don't think 2 minutes of silence could possibly hinder our absolutely terrible public education any further than it's current decrepit state.
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Aren't kids coming out of high school dumb enough as it is? (no offense intended-nothing personal)
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It's all good. Don't worry, I agree. Trust me, I know. First hand.
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Students need all the time they can get to learn.
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Learn what? The BS they half-arsedly try to teach us? I attended private school up until age 14, and I have yet to learn anything from our public ed. system.
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But prayer time-outs are different than the scenario presented at the top of this thread
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True, but the scenario at the top was obviously over-the-top wrong. I just wanted to present a much more common iteration.