I think there's a fine line between not pushing religious beliefs on people and not allowing them to freely express their religion. I don't think a public school should have crosses or religious symbols on the wall, but I feel kids should be able to wear a cross or whatever religious symbol they wish to if they want to express their religion. I don't think a public school should enforce prayer at lunch time, but I think a kid should be able to say a prayer before lunch if they want to without getting harassed or told not to. I'm all for individual expression as long as it is peaceful. It seems to me in some of the efforts to keep religion out of school, they are actually supressing any individual expression of it at all. I always looked on the ability to express whatever faith you were as one of the freedoms of this country.

I very much see the point others have made about granting holidays on Christian religious days and not other religions' holy days. I would think something like a set amount of vacation days where kids could choose which days they used would be good, but it'd be hard to set something like that up and have staff available at all times. I am not sure how this problem could be addressed without taking all holidays away and just setting up generic days off that had nothing to do with religion.