Sorry, but I didn't like at all this piece of propaganda from the religious right. We have similar propaganda in Germany with similar content and all of them end with the same twist:

BUT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PRAY or
BUT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HANG A CROSS AT THE WALL or whatever.

All what has been written before has been written with an eye to that punchline. That is what the writer had in mind from the very onset. All the build-up of the picture of the good teacher doing all she can for her pupils is only there for you to swallow the false conclusion:

If all that is expected by a teacher, how can you object to a bit of prayer?

Fred Miller above has given the only correct response to that twisted 'logic'. Public prayer of one particular denomination does not belong into a class room. Imagine the last line would be 'NOT TO BOW MY HEAD TOWARDS MEKKA' or whatever. You wouldn't swallow it.

The way most of you have interpreted this thread, complaining about teachers work load (or not) I could hardly agree more. Too many conflicting expectations make their work life often quite difficult. I don't envy them for theri jobs.

Wolfgang