mURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1991 ? SEE BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS REVIEW INSERT ? I 58 PAGES THIS WEEK CLASSIC ji 'Wr W r, -m ll #(. Major challenge Winston'sRafhs rarin' to go as national playoff hosti f|JJ| PAoeBi Winston-Salem Chronicle ON THE AVANT-GARDE By 1'ANG NIVRI to the Isn't it time to retutfj prayer to our Part 2 o Americans are starting to reassess the deci sion to remove prayer from our public schools. There is something in the American psyche that says we made a serious mistake. All of a sudden, Judges are now willing to go to the supreme court ?id insist on their right to begat their fcourt sessions with prayer. School administrators are challenging the notion of removing prayer from high school graduation ceremonies and religious music from band litera oMe. Here at North Carolina, a teacher was will ing to be fired rather than cease offering a morn ing prayer. There is something going on. And I think it is good. Parents arc starting to tisten to their children. Parents are starting to wonder if maybe the rea lm oar children fine so willing to kill each other bomber jackets is because they think that life han; around dll they run llfof ? toy Irfe told by an idiot? But it's not told ty an idiot and before it's too late we've got to turn back. IT? Tlma To Turn Back Which is why more and more folks have decided thai it is lime 10 draw a line in the e&ica tional sand ? they are saying that we madea wrong turn when we deeded to take waver out of our public schools. They are saying thai it's time that we as parents, as educators, as people who are genuinely concerned about the future of this country ?? about our community, about our society, about our own children ? it is time that we reexamine the rote our schools play in help ing to shape just what kind of perscj will literal ly walk down the sidewalk into a Mplonaid's and sit down beside you and me. That is what this is all about?and even more! Our schools are not being used just for edu cation? they are social laboratories in which we are helping to shape public policy by shaping the minds, hearts and soufs of our young people ? our future leaders ? our future clerks, bankers, nurses, lawyers, doctors, mechanics, and leach* ?s. By our removing pray er from the schools ? and replacing it with nothingness ? our children figufed that "the question as to whether a person is moial or not* is irrelevant ? is not important; for if it was important, then we as parents would have made sure that they, our children, would have been exposed to it We seem to have made more of an effort to protect their teeth ? by adding fluoride to their drinking *$ter ? than we did to protect their, very souls. ? By taking God out of His riggful place in our society, we've created a tearmnpsayiroBmeiit in otir schools that leaves youngsSrs inside for something else. They know that there must be more* Granted, this need to find some sense of spiritual purpoae, spiritual value is certainly bet ter served by die organized chinch, but answer me this: How do you teach children about living, and learning, and being civil with one another, to respect one's neighbor as one's self without addressing the question of ethical v>hies> without broaching the subject of who in