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In reply to the discussion: Question: Did you have prayer in school? [View all]Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)so yes we had prayers. It didn't make for better more respectful children and neither did corporal punishment we experienced there either.
That is why those that argue that we need to bring prayer in additon to the ones who want to bring back corporal punishment in schools "to create a better more healthy society" tick me off. IMHO they are both BS.
We had a group of boys in my class who were total bullies and thugs. They got caught shoplifting, they were in fights all the time, they would have had guns if they could have gotten their hands on them I am sure. One boy in my class used to tell anyone who listened he wished he could get back at one of the teachers who beat us, by that method.
Several of them were arrested in later life for Drug sales, drug use, violence, theft etc At least one boy in another class was convicted of murder. So were they better less violent people just cause they prayed. NO.
We had one girl who was equally as tough. She got arrested too in later life.
I am not making this up either.
That is not even counting the number who though they never turned violent, ended up with mental health issues. The majority of us fell into this catagory.
Now given I doubt Catholic Schools are like that now, and not all fo them were like that then but just speaking from my own experience prayer didn't do a damn bit of good there and neither did corporal punishment.
Just my experience and my feelings based on it.