Phi Delta Kappan Article

The article I read is called Prayer At Public School Graduation: A Survey by Larry W Barber from Phi Delta Kappan. This article is about high school graduations and prayer being conducted at the percentage of graduations using prayer. This article talks about a survey taken about what percentage of school allow prayer at school, what percentage of adults compared to students are actually presenting prayer at school. Also I explanins what percentage of school districts in fact have policies pertaining to pray at school functions for instance graduation ceremonies. This article explains what the outcome was in the servey that was conducted by 1491 disricts which was only 35 percent of the 4231 actual survey forms that were given out.
This article was very surprising to me I was amase at what the findings from the survey were when it come to prayrer at public school graduations. The majority of prayer at public school graduation came from state in the south followed by states in the Midwest. State in the east came in third and sadly were I live state in the west came in last. But the most surprising and positive statistic came from the percentage of students that were involved in prayer at public school graduations, that percentage was 70 percent. That means that 70 percent of the time prayer at public schools was given by a students, which is a great number for our youth. It was also suprising that only 114 of the 4231 school districs had an actual policy regarding prayer at school. This was an interesting article I agree with what the author had to say but it was more about how schools were conducting prayer.

Reference:
Barber Larry.”Prayer At Public School Graduation: A Survey”. Phi Delta Kappan October 1993