SCHOOLS NEED TO TEACH MORALITY

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 21, 1993                   TAG: 9301210464
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
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SCHOOLS NEED TO TEACH MORALITY
I AM 15 years old and believe that prayer should still be in school, because we need the morality the Bible teaches in our daily life. At school, we learn how to fight, have sex, smoke cigarettes, take drugs and curse against God. At church, I learn the exact opposite.
I wrote a report recently on AIDS and homosexuals. My teacher told me to be careful if what I said came from the Bible.
People don't want to hear what God says about all of this. They want to ignore problems of teen-age pregnancy, homosexuality, guns in the school. They hope these problems will go away. Of course, they will not. Whether or not you believe in Jesus Christ and everything he tells us, it still is going to happen.
One day, you will all have to explain to God why you rejected him. By taking prayer out of school, you are just telling kids it is OK to do all of these things. We need more than prayer in school, we need Bibles being read and the word of God everywhere! CRYSTAL BLANKENSHIP ELLISTON

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB