Supporters, of prayer in school, view that starting the day off with a prayer will not harm society. Some people see it as a "way of allowing the students to clear their minds." (Mireless 28) It gives students a peaceful way to start the day, instead of a teacher to quiet an obnoxious group of students. They also think, "prayer is a healthy way to start off the day." (Mireless 50) It clears the minds of the students and makes them start to think deeply. This also starts the day off with a purposeful mood.

People supporting prayer view that not only does it help make the transition into learning smooth, but it also helps the students to resolve personal issues. Prayer gives students a time every morning where they think about values and faith to help them through life. "Many students have problems and prayer gives them time to think about their issues." (Mireless 30) Supporters also say that our youth has lost the respect that students had for their country, their peers, and their lives.

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Some Christians even oppose the amendment saying that the bible warns against school prayer. It says, "and when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men... when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret." (Matthew 6: 5-6) Some people believe that this shows that it is evident that praying in school is in direct contradiction to the bible.

The compromise to this solution is to have a moment of silence at the beginning of school. Students would now have the right to pray, meditate, contemplate or study. This kind of "prayer" helps students focus, alleviates stress, attunes them to their own creativity and empowers them. A book on natural prayer states "We have forgotten that we are all in this together, and we keep separating ourselves, by color, by football teams, by age, and so on and on. We need something to pull us all together. Natural prayer could be that miracle. It includes everyone, even non-believers." (Cornish 55)

Supporters state that even early congressional action encouraged and approved in religion in public schools. The Northwest Treaty (1787 and 1789) declared: "Religion, morality, and knowledge being nec

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