Teaching of religion should be allowed in public schools.

Sorry for my slow response. Onto my opponents arguments; "To begin with, I never said that we would be banning prayers with this....as long as they do not disrupt the learning of others to do so." As I stated before my use of the word "prayers" in school mean the practice (practice pertaining to teaching) of religion in schools. Either your contradicting your side of the resolution or you misinterpreted my use of the word. "schools across the nation can't afford this....largely due to Bush's No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." 1. My opponents first source is from the effects of NCLB in 2003, and the second source displays Bush's "proposed" budget cuts in 2006. Obviously these can't account for our current status-quo. 2. Obama's stimulus plan is giving $392.6 million to support education in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education (grades 1-12) Which will first be used to "back-fill" the cuts by the Bush administration. Thats from my source http://www.thespectrum.com... and the source also states so far Obama and the commitee have identified 17% of the cuts already while he isn't even in his second month of presidency. We can expect the rest of the cuts to be identified and terminated VERY soon. "Since budgets are being cut so drastically, there is simply no way we can afford these electives." 1. My opponent argues as if what she states is inherent, as I've stated before it's not. "we certainly can't afford to make a class for all religious groups in all schools." 1. We don't need to, we only need classes for people who wish to practice their religion in schools as a class. I've stated before not everyone with a religion is going to wan't to take a class on it. For example if there is a school with a bunch of muslims who wish to practice their religion in a class, the school would have a class for that. If anything it could be a class where religions people can get together with their peers and talk about their religion. Schools have a wide variety of things they can do; they can create individual electives for the classes, or a smaller school with some variety of religions they could all get together and discuss their beliefs etc. any way that may help equalize the schools. "Also in this contention, my opponent insists that religion is crucial to the learning process. If this were so, then religious classes should be taught as core classes if taught at all, not electives. My opponent directly contradicts himself." Allow me to clear up my opponents view on the contradiction, I stand that religion is crutial to education for those who seek to further educate themselves in religion, because it combines their values with their education. Obviously regligion is not crutial for those who don't partake into it, and so they have the choice of NOT joining through electives. Core classes would force upon religion. "And attacking their third contention This is irrelevant due to the fact that schools affected by NCLB have had substantial budget cuts and can't afford new teachers, especially those schools that are on probation" My previous answers to NCLB prove my "jobs" contention relevant. This being the only argument, my opponent concedes to my points within the contention because they were not answered. "Should a Christian instructor be allowed to inflict his or her beliefs onto the minds of their impressionable.... Let our teens, pre-teens, and children be free." I can claim this argument as well. I never proposed core classes as you have several time in your last round. Thus no "infliction" will happen. I agree, "let our teens, pre-teens, and children be free." if one is to be free, should they not be able to further educate themselves in school on their own religion? Therefore vote for that statement right there, on the Pro side. Also any claim of religious violence in schools my opponent has sugested can only pertain to current unfairness in schools. Let them take electives in Atheism, Christianity, Buddhism, etc. so that we may end these conflicts due to unfair treatment. There are no warrants for religious classes causing chaos, but the evidence of unfair conflicts are all around us. Onto my case; Depriving religious classes from students severely undertakes their morals and values, it makes them think religion just isn't important enough to study in this world. This is my first contention. Onto my second, my opponent concedes to my arguments all except the one about Catholic school funding. Sorry to say I never found that link again so I grant Con the argument, but my opponent is far from dismantling the contention. My arguments stand the same, please take a moment to review over my second contention again if you will viewers... And my third contention, jobs. The only argument is that it is irrelevant because the budget cuts which is answered. You may extend my arguments on that contention as well, going unanswered. To wrap up, my opponent states her biggest argument in this round is fairness, but Its obvious who owns that contention. And remember, "Let our teens, pre-teens, and children be free." Thank You!