Religion and law in public schools

"Our Founders were likely not thinking about prayer in classrooms when [the First Amendment was] written. They certainly never dreamed of a time when court dockets would be crowded with cases about what types of organizations could use public school facilities after hours, religious expression at high school football games, or whether elementary school Christmas concerts were allowed. Indeed, current issues involving LGBTQ and gender rights, use of the Internet, social media and other technologies ... could not have been part of their consideration. Yet today, as a matter of complying with the law, we must think about and try to understand religion and the public schools, a subject that will only grow more complex for tomorrow's teachers, administrators, students, attorneys, and political leaders. The question is: What is an effective way to study, address and raise questions about an important legal and moral topic that not only embraces a wide range of academic disciplines - history, religion, the law, sociology, the arts - but also places a burden of objectivity on each of us ... "--Page iii.