How do students spend their 60 seconds of silence?

My colleague Janet Elliott reports this afternoon that a federal judge has upheld a 2003 law requiring students in Texas to begin their school day with a moment of silence. The controversy centered on whether the law was an attempt to push religion in public schools.

U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn of Dallas said in her opinion that there wasn’t doubt that several lawmakers desired to “put prayer back in schools,” Elliott reports. But others said students could spend their 60 seconds doing something other than praying.


So, teachers, how much shoe staring is going on in your classrooms, or are the students benefitting from, as Gov. Rick Perry put it, a dedicated time with their “innermost thoughts and contemplations”? Parents, what are you telling your students to do during those 60 seconds? And, of course, let us know if you agree or disagree with the judge’s ruling.

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Ericka Mellon