Students and religion in U.S. schools
God is here. God is alive. In this world and in schools as well. Many teenagers participate in or witness religious activity on campus . Students retain a First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion and may voluntarily pray before, during and after school. A Pew Resaerch Center survey finds that about four-in-ten teens who attend public schools say they commonly (either “often” or “sometimes”) see other students praying before sporting events at school. This includes about half of teenage public schoolers who live in the South, where students are more likely than those in other regions to witness and partake in various religious expressions at school. In addition, roughly half of U.S. teens who attend public school say they commonly see other students in their school wearing religious clothing (such as an Islamic headscarf ) or jewelry with religious symbols (such as a necklace with a Christian cross or a Jewish Star of David). About a quarter of
