Religion in School

Religion in School


To me I never had an incident in school that was about religion. We don’t really talk about religion like that because there are people in school that’s not religious, so we don’t want to talk about it so we try to make them feel comfortable. I don’t know if religion should be taught in school or not. To me I really don’t care because I know what I believe in and nothing can change that. But on the other hand some people don’ believe that they think that they are trying to change they religion their belief. To me I really don’t know if it should or should not be taught in school or not because some people can take it the wrong way and some won’t it’s according to who is teaching it.


In the case of McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) it talks about how a mother did not like her child being taught religion in school that she had took the school to the Supreme Court. Mrs. McCollum won the case by a 6-1 vote. She took it to heart saying that they are trying to change her child’s belief of religion. Mrs. McCollum thought that religion shouldn’t be taught in school it’s not there place they shouldn’t be trying to tell children about religion and what is right and wrong about it. Some people have their own beliefs and religions so they don’t want other people telling them another. That’s why she went to court in the first place she didn’t want other people telling kids different beliefs about religion that they don’t believe in or don’t even know about. The point why she went to court was that everybody doesn’t believe in the same things, like some people believe that there is more than one god and some believe that there is only one. Some people are Muslims, Christians, and there are many more other religions out here every body don’t believe in the same things. That’s why I think that in some cases that religion shouldn’t be taught in school because other people might not believe in the same religion. So they just shouldn’t teach it at all in schools.