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Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
January 16, 2020

Teachers who wish to pray or engage in other group religious activities must do so outside of the presence of students.

–Gibbs, David C., Jr., and David C. Gibbs III (2008). Keeping Christ in America’s Public Schools, Seminole: Christian Law Association.

Listen to this podcast from the radio program Law Talk Live “Making Sense of Religion in America’s Public Schools” from Dec. 28, 2013.

Click on the questions to reveal the answers. All answers are directly taken from Keeping Christ in America’s Public Schools, Gibbs & Gibbs (2008).

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