Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!mcmillan From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics Subject: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opinions Message-ID: <671@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 23:29:34 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.671 Posted: Sat Mar 10 23:29:34 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 07:04:09 EST References: <237@unmvax.UUCP> <1403@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1342@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 23 In reply to Prentiss Riddle, who is concerned about what the children of an atheist and a Hindi would do during a Christian school prayer... Why don't they just refuse to participate, thus setting themselves awkwardly apart from the rest of the class. Don't you want them to learn to be ostracized? What is school for, anyway? My Grandmother once went to school to do battle for her (Jewish) children, whose classes were singing some of the more religious Christmas carols. The principal advised her that of course, her children need not sing; they could stand apart and not participate. May grandmother then asked, "And what should they do while they are not participating? Stand there and feel superior?" I think tht the principal in the process of biting back a reply that of course they should not feel SUPERIOR, understood her point. Prayer in schools would be divisive. Silence in schools is a waste of money. - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)