Prayer Needs To Be Back In School
It wasn’t uncommon 60 years ago in the United States for kids to begin school by first praying. Christianity was a major aspect in many schools across the United States and still is essential in schools in other parts of the world. Was society fully perfect back then? Definitely not as issues such as racism or discrimination plagued many countries across the world especially the United States. However, Christianity was still a key part in the school system. Then laws such as the Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) and Engel v. Vitale (1962) proposed that enforcing students to pray and do mandatory bible readings were unconstitutional. Students today still have the option to pray in private during school on a individual basis but it is not enforced for the whole school. Ever since prayer was taken out of the school, we are seeing more issues happening in today’s school as the enemy has taken hold of many schools. Issues such as drugs, alcohol and sex are plaguing many schools with kids experimenting in these factors at a young age. Kids are now being peer pressured to engage in sin before they even reach their teenage years. Kids and teens are now sneaking weapons into schools with reports of guns and knives being found on students in schools. This is one part of the spectrum. There has been an influx of school shootings with people walking into the schools shooting and killing innocent kids and teachers. Innocent kids and teens are now losing their lives before they even reach adulthood. Many people would blame guns and request for guns to banned. However, there are pictures and reports of kids bringing rifles to schools in the 1950’s and 1960’s for gun clubs or safety courses. There were little to no school shootings back then which showcases the main point that guns aren’t the main culprit. Back then many people even kids were raised to have a fear of God and taking someone’s law for evil reasons would lead them to hell fire after they die. There should be more supervision on firearms due to factors such as criminals but it’s not the main source behind today’s issues in the schools. Many young people today aren’t taught to have a fear of God at school or by their parents. Society has dropped their standards and it’s reflecting in the incoming generations. Now, you have more young people who are ready to kill their fellow classmates and teachers sometimes over petty reasons. God is the ultimate protection and when you remove prayer from schools, you remove the hand of God. Now this invites Satan, demons and the fallen angels in to wreck havoc and demonize people. With society straying away more from the word of God and more people leaving Christianity, society will get even worse in the future. The best option for many Christian parents is to enroll their children in a private Christian school or to homeschool them. This helps kids to learn more about the ways of God and avoid the temptations of public school. However, for families who can’t afford private school or homeschooling, the best option is to pray for your kids and other kids in public school. Ask for God’s angels to be surround them and for God’s hand to be upon them. Help teach your kids more about God as when you train up a child in the ways of God, they won’t depart from the faith (Proverbs 22:6). Are there some kids who leave the faith who grew up in Christian households? Yes but they are more adequate at avoiding temptation and sin vs children who grew up in atheist households. Parents can’t be with their kids 24/7 but the least they can do is give them the tools such as the bible and teaching them about God to resist the schemes of the enemy. Satan loves to target young people because if they can destroy them from a young age, they are more likely to be destroyed when they reach adulthood. Whether you have children, little siblings, young family members such as cousins or even people with no kids or young family members let’s pray for the next generation. Satan is busy in these last days and let’s pray that God covers the next generation when they go to school to avoid Satan and to get to know Jesus Christ. God Bless
