Omniseek: Education: Student Prayer Again an Issue for High Court

Public prayer may return to America's schools this year, thanks to the determined efforts of this small and strongly Baptist town near the Texas Gulf Coast. No one doubts that a student may pray privately at her desk, or join with friends to pray together at lunchtime. And for at least a decade, students have had the right to meet before class or after school to study the Bible or pray. But the school board here wants something more: a student leading a prayer at school events, ranging from assemblies and the graduation ceremony to Friday night football games.