@SyteR Thanks for your response. "There can be no rationale forbidding the expression in our schools of what %80 of America believes and prays." You're absolutely correct. In fact, not just me, but that liberal bastion the ACLU, agrees with you. The right to expression of a personal religious viewpoint in a public setting is well-protected - and rightly so. You can pretty much say - or pray - what you like, where you like. However, the point is - and it's such an important point, it's constitutionally protected - you can't use public money or public servants to endorse a religion or a religious point of view in a public school. Of course, the other point (let's call it the compassionate, human, loving point) is that all our children should feel welcome and supported in school, no matter what their religious viewpoint. Is that too much to ask?

Faulty reasoning: If Indian dream-catchers can be made during art class, French can be taught during language class, gym can be taught to math scholars and math can be taught to athletes, there can be no rationale forbidding the expression in our schools of what %80 of America believes and prays, "GOD BLESS AMERICA." Atheist groups are trying to impose atheism on the rest of us, and are using intimidation by litigation to silence the freedom of religion that our country guarantees. They are fighting a prejudice that does not exist, they are jousting at windmills-- http://sytereitz.com/2011/02/ffrf-jousting-at-windmills/ .

"GOD BLESS AMERICA" isn't on our money. "IN GOD WE TRUST" should not be either, but this sort of thing in public schools falsely gives the impression that our government endorses religions that have exactly one god rather than the establishing no religion of the Constitution. So much misinformation has been repeated so many times that I even heard a man insist that god or creator is in the U.S. Constitution, even though it is not! Children need to be taught critical thinking. Look it up for themselves rather than being taught to blindly believe what others say. They can learn the really good reasons the Founders at the Second Continental Congress left it out: the people were to devisive about religion. There are even those who don't realize that the gist of the Declaration of Independence was to tell King George III that the PEOPLE have the rights to govern themselves, rather than monarchs being annointed by God as most people had been led to believe for a very long time.

Well stated and I totally agree.

With "nones" (people with no religious affiliation) currently the fastest growing sector of the US population, and non-religious people outnumbering Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans and Presbyterians combined, it's time to recognize that our schools need to be a place where all our children feel welcome, whatever their religious viewpoint. Not every child or family shares a view of a God created world. The public school system is not the place to try to convert them.