The United States was built on prayer. Prayer or religion is on our currency in the many halls of our justice and federal buildings, so no matter where we go, we cannot escape prayer. Our founding fathers did not exclude the Bible in building our nation and educating our future and there will be no expectations. No matter what the prayer will be, no matter where you are. Some people just don't believe in God, that's why some don't want prayer in public school. Although each of the clauses originally applied to the central government of the United States, and the Fourteenth Amendment was expanded to extend the entire First Amendment to all levels of government, including the state level. Therefore mandated states and disciplinary schools take a similarly hands-off approach to religion in schools. The issue of school prayer has been seriously debated in the United States since 1900. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, local schools were usually opened with oral prayer or Bible reading. Religious people sometimes object to distinct observations made in schools. For example the case of the Edgerton Bible. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of Catholics who were challenged over the use of the King James Bible in Wisconsin schools. The ruling is based on the state constitution and applies only in Wisconsin. Like other challenges elsewhere in the country, it provided a precedent for federal rulings that would come later. The legal climate for school prayer in the United States began to change in 1955, when the New York Board of Regents developed a recommended prayer for school districts under its jurisdiction. A couple of years later, Steven I Engel would file an action against Union Free School District 9 over his adoption. Arguing that it constituted the... center of the paper... Abington was largely negative, regarding the fact that many school districts and states had attempted to reestablish school-sponsored prayer in many different forms since 1962. In the 1990s, the controversy in the courts it tends to revolve around prayer. Public prayers during graduation ceremonies and those conducted over the public address system before high school games. Despite their attempts to present a clear position on school-sponsored religious activity, the Engel and Abington cases have been served as precedent and cited by some advocates of school prayer. While the Establishment Clause prohibits state sponsorship of religion and the Free Exercise Clause prohibits state interference in individual religious exercise. Where the state entity shifts from accommodation to state promotion of one religious activity over another. Works Cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_prayer