This bill, by requiring the classroom teacher to refer to God, clearly encourages students to pray or engage in religious activity. Not only do students possess no right to pray audibly in school-related events, such activity violates the Establishment Clause. See Ingebretsen v. Jackson Pub. If this legislation is enacted, it will undoubtedly be challenged and struck down, with the state and local school districts bearing the costs of the litigation. This legislation is unconstitutional and bad policy.
Time is of the essence.