FRANKFORT, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — The Kentucky Senate introduced a bill requiring Kentucky students to participate in a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day.
With Senate Bill 19 , a one- to two-minute moment of silence would begin the start of the first class each day in public schools in Kentucky. Students would be able to decide how to use that time as long as they “make no distracting display” so as not to “interfere with, distract from, or impede other pupils’ exercise of individual choice.”
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According to the bill, district personnel would be prohibited from providing instruction to any student to engage in the moment of silence.
Lord’s Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance in Kentucky schools
The bill includes language about furthering the teaching of United States history and about freedom of religion by allowing districts to authorize the recitation of the traditional Lord’s Prayer and pledge of allegiance in public elementary schools in a voluntary way.
Boards of education for all districts would be required to build a policy allowing students to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance if they want to…