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Wallace v. Jaffree
April 2nd, 2008 by jhonnya
Wallace v. Jaffree was a Supreme Court Case about a parent and the child. A parent was suing a public school for having religion as meditation for the children. The parent said that the law2 of praying in public schools was breaking the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment states that no law can be put that forces someone to study a new religion and not study their own. It also states that people can not put religion in a school or in any other place without permission. So when this case went to the District Court, it was passed. When it went to the Court of Appeals, they said that the law was unconstitutional. They said that this law was going against the 1st Amendment. When it went to the Supreme Court, the results came out to be 6 to 3. So, at the end of this case, the law from the school was not allowed any more.
What I think about this case is that it was a good idea to take away the law. I think that it is not fair for the public school to have prayer when the parent did not want it. The school could have had something else for meditation instead of prayer. Every person has the right to say if they want religion in the school for their children. They also have the chance to say if they don’t want religion in the school. It is not fair that the government of the state to put a law that gives the school permission to allow prayer if parents don’t want to. As I said before, the parent has the right to let their child have prayer in their school only if they want to. This is why I am against this case. -Eduardo-
What I think about the case is that the child involved in this case didn’t have to have any part in the prayer. The minor could have gone to a different room or could have done some other method of peace and meditation. The parent of the minor could have just asked the teacher to excuse the minor from the meditation. The minor could have had asked the principal what activities other than meditation he could have done. This would have prevented this problem from going to the Supreme Court. That’s why I am for this case. -Jonathan-
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on April 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
i believe that the court should havetaken away religion to public schools mainly because it isn’t fair, and that parents should have the right to allow their child in a school with religion
on April 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 am
I think that it was okay to take away religion from public schools, and also that parents should have the right to know, and/or put their child in a school that has prayer of a certain religion.
on April 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 am
I agree with both of them. What I think about this case is that it was a good idea to take away the law beacuse is not fair for the public school to have prayer when they arent from that religion. Every person has the right to say if they want religion in the school.I also agree with allowing prayer in schools but leading each person pray what they want to pray.The should give them a couple of min. to pray what they want to pray
on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
I agree with Eduardo. I agree with him because the students and the parents had the right to say if they wanted religion for medication or not. They cant just make them take religion as their medication if they didnt want to. If the parents dont want religion for their kids, thats ok. I just dont think that the government was being fair when it gave school permission to allow prayer if the parents didnt want to. This is my opinion for this case.